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> Heck, even Ubuntu nowadays comes with ads that you need to opt out of. No longer true. Canonical took a lot of (deserved) flak for making that feature opt-ou
by kardos 11y ago
> Heck, even Ubuntu nowadays comes with ads that you need to opt out of.
No longer true. Canonical took a lot of (deserved) flak for making that feature opt-out, and last year they finally fixed it [1].
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/ubuntu-make-amazon-product-results-opt-unity http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/ubuntu-make-amazon-produc...
- danieldk 11y agoAre you sure? IIRC the last LTS version I tried (14.04) still has Amazon search on by default.
- kardos 11y agoActually, no. That article was dated Mar 31, 2014, so I assumed that they switched the configuration option by 14.10. .... but some searching indicates that they won't get around to disabling online searches by default until Unity 8 is default in Ubuntu. It seems that Unity 8 won't be default until 16.04 [1] or later [2]. So I rescind my previous statement. Canonical deserves as much scorn as you can dish out for disregarding their users' privacy for 3 years and counting. [1] http://mhall119.com/2014/10/unity-8-desktop/ http://mhall119.com/2014/10/unity-8-desktop/ [2] http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-16-04-LTS-Won-t-Have-Unity-8-by-Default-the-Community-Will-Decide-480129.shtml http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-16-04-LTS-Won-t-Have-U...