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Not all monetisation is "Shilling", floor_. If people could stop being so paranoid about nothing (the data is anonimised before sent for goodness' sake) then technology can advance much easier and quicker.
What does sending your local search terms to Canonical and Amazon do to advance technology, exactly? All these desperate attempts at monetization off users' privacy are disgusting, and it's sad to see companies big and small stoop to that level.
Yeah I agree. It's pretty disgusting for some company to make a product and then expect some kind of compensation for it.