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Whether you like the ad-supported model or not, this is just bad UI! Who searches their programs and wants to see matching books and music? I could understand listing other software for sale, but this is daft. I doubt they'll get anything but complaints about this and it'll go away.
So even if you are just searching for a local file or application, that search string is being sent to Amazon. Thus, an entire history of what you search for on your computer will be stored with Amazon.
This is no different to how adware functions. It opens up massive privacy implications that are not addressed or discussed in OP (or anywhere else that I have seen) but need to be before this feature is released in a stable version.
Edit: I have no problem with integrating Amazon for affiliate fees, just think it needs to be thought through a little more so that there are no surprises to users. Add to that the privacy implications needs to be disclosed to users frankly and upfront.
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Or you can just sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping It's that easy.
I do want Canonical's well being in the long run. Just give me a "special" paid version and I will do it.
Gawd. Unity, and now this garbage. Should be interesting to see how Mint does...
Mint user here. Mint used to set Firefox's default search engine a customized (read: craptastic) version of Google that's designed to rake in the ad revenue. I wouldn't have a problem with it if it wasn't utterly useless and ugly as sin. (It looked like the Google site search for webmasters.) Now the default search engine is DuckDuckGo. I have no idea if they have a revshare agreement with them.
Are you referring to the default home page?
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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?
Looks more like a tax on the average user. Apparently they are trivial to remove: sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping
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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?
http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=squeeze&searchon...
If you want up-to-date, use testing, which is at python 2.7.3:
http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=wheezy&searchon=...
They both have python3 versions available, too (3.1.3 and 3.2.3 respectively). There are legitimate complaints about Debian, but being stuck on python 2.4 is not one of them.
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I've just found Debian breaks too much and is mostly deprecated, e.g. Python 2.4?
That sounds like FUD. If you don't want it to break, use stable, which is currently at python 2.6.6: http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=squeeze&searchon... If you want up-to-date, use testing, which is at python 2.7.3: http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=wheezy&searchon=... They both have python3 versions available, too (3.1.3 and 3.2.3 respectively). There are legitimate complaints about Debian, but being s…
Just a note: all the ads will be removable with the command: sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping --purge
You type too much: sudo dpkg -P unity-lens-shopping