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Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed

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Re: Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed

#111

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

I would much rather type

sudo flay the-marketroid-who-came-up-with-that -v -v -painful -transcript -violate-human-rights

right now.

Re: Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed

#112
Is this in any way different than having Google as default search engine, taking a share of music sold via the music library or taking a share of what software is sold via the in-os-app-store?

Nothing shitty, I bet many (not you guys who read HN, but non-power users) will like this feature. I don't think I'll disable it.

And that: it's possible to disable, that is nice.

Re: Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed

#114
I must say, having forgot to make a donation to Canonical the last time I updated my laptop (my bad!) I don't mind this so much.

Depending on what language I am coding in I either have IntelliJ mostly full screen, or I have emacs and a few term windows open that cover most of the screen.

Question: does anyone know if they ads will be visible in these work modes?

Re: Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed

#117
post #108
post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

donate to both, though give Debian more because they don't have a Mark Shuttleworth :)

Mark Shuttleworth is a Debian Developer.

Re: Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed

#120

I must say, having forgot to make a donation to Canonical the last time I updated my laptop (my bad!) I don't mind this so much. Depending on what language I am coding in I either have IntelliJ mostly full screen, or I have emacs and a few term windows open that cover most of the screen. Question: does anyone know if they ads will be visible in these work modes?

I think I can answer my own question: it looks like only the Unity Launcher and some shopping views are affected.

I buy a lot of stuff on Amazon and I am glad Canonical will get a little cut.

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