Don't see any problem, as I have adblock installed.
Umm...
This isn't in your browser, this is in your entire operating system...
Adblock won't do anything to help you with this one.
Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed
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Re: Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed
#182I don't think Ubuntu has really thought this through. Besides the privacy problems, making your software into adware is incredibly destructive to its image. Ubuntu can no longer be used by any self-respecting or privacy-conscious company or individual. Imagine the CTO of IBM - "So, this Ubuntu is adware? And it sends all our searches to Amazon? Are you kidding me? Get out of my office and get me a list of real OSes,…
This is pure hyperbole. It would take one of IBM's Linux IT people half an hour to modify the Ubuntu disc image to remove the offending package.
Or you can run an Ubuntu-derived distribution. In my experience, Linux Mint is already much more corporate user-friendly. It's Ubuntu with all the opiniated stuff taken out and replaced with conservative, sensible alternatives.
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is pure hyperbole. It would take one of IBM's Linux IT people half an hour to modify the Ubuntu disc image to remove the offending package.
The technical situation has NOTHING to do with this problem. It is a social problem, an image problem, a branding problem. Ubuntu is now low-class software, and high-class people use high-class software.
Meh, I think that applies more to the consumer market than it does to the corporate market. If the corporate market were concerned only about branding, everyone would be using a Mac. And although there has been a trend in that direction, the overwhelming majority of corporate computers are running Windows to this day.
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is pure hyperbole. It would take one of IBM's Linux IT people half an hour to modify the Ubuntu disc image to remove the offending package.
The technical situation has NOTHING to do with this problem. It is a social problem, an image problem, a branding problem. Ubuntu is now low-class software, and high-class people use high-class software.
I know a few people who still use Kindle and Google Search, despite their infection with ads. Maybe Ubuntu will survive as well?
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#185Someone has opened a bug report about this in LaunchPad. If you think this is a terrible mistake by Canonical, and that it should be fixed, you can mark yourself as affected by this bug too: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-lens-shoppin...
In case you've never used this tracking system, the icon you need to click on is here : http://i.imgur.com/o02oX.png
That yellow circle with the pencil in it. It should yield a pop-up for you to state whether it affects you.
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is pure hyperbole. It would take one of IBM's Linux IT people half an hour to modify the Ubuntu disc image to remove the offending package.
The technical situation has NOTHING to do with this problem. It is a social problem, an image problem, a branding problem. Ubuntu is now low-class software, and high-class people use high-class software.
I use what suits me the best. TBH this is the first time I hear about class-warfare in software. "High-class" people can use Windows Server for all they want (if they define pricy as "high-class"), while the rest use what is the best for ourselves. Is Google going to abandon Ubuntu base as their main OS? Very unlikely as they can just strip out the package. Does Google give a damn about "class"? No!
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#187Honestly, 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…
It would be a major improvement... For users in the United States. For everybody else, it would be completely useless.
Amazon Cloud Drive has recently launched in UK, DE, FR, IT, ES (and Cloud Player is available in UK, DE, FR). It's certainly not just in US.
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#188It is beyond time for Ubuntu to quit pussyfooting around and partner with ASUS or some other competent hardware manufacturer* and sell Ubuntu-branded laptops on the Ubuntu website. The Linux desktop (in various incarnations) has been in "testing" for over 15 years. Shuttleworth created Canonical and hired designers and developers to put together a 1st-class desktop system. Time to double down. Try and get some real c…
I would buy this. Even if Acer would come with Ubuntu instead of their Linpus thing, it would be a huge win. Knowing I get a 100% Ubuntu certified laptop would make me ignore the brand.
I'm a huge fan of System76, in case you are unfamiliar: https://www.system76.com/
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
It isn't an unsurmountable problem, and they would know what user wishes were and where the revenue came from. Would it be accurate to the nearest cent? Nope, but it would be close enough.
I don't point it out as a technical problem, but as a privacy one.
Then treat private ones as though they had the default splits, or whatever the average/majority had picked, which are likely to be substantially the same.
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#190This combined with the recent buginess of Ubuntu is the last straw, I am switching to Arch Linux. Ubuntu has changed since it started into nothing more than another OS trying to make money by screwing over the user.