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Re: Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed

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Post by trotsky »

recoiledsnake wrote: post #54

From the actual link: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/online-shopping-features-... >For example, when you want to search for “dishwashers” on Amazon you can just enter “Dishwashers” in the Dash and a small line of “suggested items” from Amazon will appear. >The same happens when you search for a local file or app from the Home Lens. >So yes, you can expect to see self-help guides on compassion when trying to launc…

I'm pretty sure the implementation of lenses in the Unity dash is conceptually similar to pages in a web browser. You would have to switch to the shopping lens before your keystrokes were pushed to the search provider (Amazon in this case). So perhaps roughly equivalent to adding extra default tabs to your web browser minus the initial load privacy leak.

You can add them to the home dash as well (or whatever their terminology is) which would send your normal search keystrokes, but that hasn't been the default for any other net based queries in the past.

Re: Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed

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Post by mortenjorck »

recoiledsnake wrote: post #54

From the actual link: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/online-shopping-features-... >For example, when you want to search for “dishwashers” on Amazon you can just enter “Dishwashers” in the Dash and a small line of “suggested items” from Amazon will appear. >The same happens when you search for a local file or app from the Home Lens. >So yes, you can expect to see self-help guides on compassion when trying to launc…

> Edit: Just realized that I sometimes type keywords to find local files matching filenames and content that's personal in nature. Does this mean all those keywords are sent to Amazon and perhaps data mined to show personalized results?

Exactly my concern as well. It honestly seems like an awfully broad spray to have these results on every search – why not just make it a selectable mode instead of populating every time?

Re: Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed

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Post by mariuz »

jdjb wrote: post #25
smoyer wrote: post #10

I can live with this (or uninstall it) but will they fix my audio? It had been fine after about 8.04, but has been broken by every update that included Unity by default.

%> sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio %> sudo reboot You're welcome.

that solves a lot of audio problems in ubuntu/debian linux

Re: Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed

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Post by mariuz »

jdjb wrote: post #25
smoyer wrote: post #10

I can live with this (or uninstall it) but will they fix my audio? It had been fine after about 8.04, but has been broken by every update that included Unity by default.

%> sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio %> sudo reboot You're welcome.

that solves a lot of audio problems in ubuntu/debian linux

Re: Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed

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Post by mariuz »

comice wrote: post #44

In fact, I just realised that I really like Ubuntu and would happily make a monthly donation to support it (and can afford to) but I've never seen anything that suggested I do so. I can't find any hints on ubuntu.com on how to donate (though they have a shop, I don't want any "swag"). Shuttleworth has always said he wants to make it a viable business; perhaps he's worried people would donate instead of having their b…

The better way is to contribute to the debian community

http://www.debian.org/donations

Re: Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed

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Post by tomrod »

bluedanieru wrote: post #47
w1ntermute wrote: post #43

Just a note: all the ads will be removable with the command: sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping --purge

That's very similar to many other distros except you don't need to run the command.

You made me giggle in these bleak times. Thanks for that.

Re: Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed

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Post by tomrod »

mariuz wrote: post #76
comice wrote: post #44

In fact, I just realised that I really like Ubuntu and would happily make a monthly donation to support it (and can afford to) but I've never seen anything that suggested I do so. I can't find any hints on ubuntu.com on how to donate (though they have a shop, I don't want any "swag"). Shuttleworth has always said he wants to make it a viable business; perhaps he's worried people would donate instead of having their b…

The better way is to contribute to the debian community http://www.debian.org/donations

I've just found Debian breaks too much and is mostly deprecated, e.g. Python 2.4?

Re: Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed

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Post by nikcub »

avolcano wrote: post #11

Honestly, if Ubuntu dropped their ridiculous, underdeveloped, undersupported Ubuntu One services and partnered with Amazon to integrate theirs (Cloud Player/Cloud Drive/etc), that would be a MAJOR improvement for both them and the end-user. Excellent cross-platform cloud services and marketplaces integrated with the OS would be great for bringing less-technical users to the platform in the wake of the proposed "Windo…

Running those services themselves, such as Cloud Drive, the music store, etc. was never a good idea in the first place.

By trying to do too much too soon they were only ever going to produce second rate products compared to the competition (a company with the resources of Microsoft can barely win some of these verticals, let alone Canonical).

It was always going to end with them stripping out and shutting down their own solutions and integrating with the best possible partners with each service.

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