> The relationship with Superfish is not financially significant; our goal was to enhance the experience for users.
I don't believe that for a second.
Lenovo Statement on Superfish
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#22I was considering getting a Lenovo X1 Carbon to run linux on. I'd be installing a clean image, so no Superfish, but I still don't want to give money to Lenovo right now. What alternative linux laptops are there? (aside from macs)
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#23I was considering getting a Lenovo X1 Carbon to run linux on. I'd be installing a clean image, so no Superfish, but I still don't want to give money to Lenovo right now. What alternative linux laptops are there? (aside from macs)
There's System76, which are basically pre-loaded Clevo laptops (which are sold under many different names).
I have the Galago Ultrapro and am quite happy with it. Good battery life, fast, user-serviceable and a calibrated IPS screen. On release the keyboard was a little off, but the new one is pretty good.
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#24Lenovo is saying exactly what they need to say in order to prevent their statement from being admitted as evidence in a lawsuit or legal proceeding.
In other words, they just acknowledged it without admitting fault or liability.
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#26"Superfish was included [...] to help customers potentially discover interesting products while shopping".
Wow how thoughtful and helpful of them.
I don't understand the point of bloatware. Are the manufacturers making a ton of money off of them or something? How much could bloatware writers possibly be offering to make it worth uglifying your brand?
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#27> The relationship with Superfish is not financially significant; our goal was to enhance the experience for users.
I would prefer for this to be a lie than for it to turn out for this statement to be true. Surely nobody at Lenovo honestly belived that ad injection improved user experience?
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#28Lenovo is going to lose more through how they handle this than through the fact that they did it in the first place.
I agree, both in the market for products, but also for engineers.
I'm sure that Lenovo has some really smart people that right now consider if they should dust off their CV and jump ship instead of working with morons.
This kind of stupidity can really destroy morale of technical teams within an organisation.
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#29Can't say I put a lot of trust in this statement
"It does not profile nor monitor user behavior. It does not record user information. It does not know who the user is. Users are not tracked nor re-targeted."
from someone who refers to ad-ware as "...to help customers potentially discover interesting products while shopping".
Barf.
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#30> Users are given a choice whether or not to use the product.
What did this choice look like? Were users prompted to remove the cert if they didn't want it?