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Ubuntu 14.04 released

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Re: Ubuntu 14.04 released

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Post by Toenex »

bencoder wrote: post #16
pjvds wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not all data center serve the latest page yet.

I'm getting Beta 2, from the UK. For some reason your other comment explaining this is [dead]. Can't see any reason why though.

UK here too. 'sudo do-release-upgrade' gives 'No new release found`.

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 released

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Post by gcb0 »

zanny wrote: post #11
floor_ wrote: post #8

Does Ubuntu still shill out personal data to Amazon?

They never gave out personal information, they just covered your dash with ads and clicking them gave Canonical affiliate revenue. They routed the searches through their servers to prevent Amazon from associating searches and IPs when they go to the actual site. And I (think?) this is the release where dash ads are default off.

They send to Amazon what you type. And default was always on. And in latest versions option to disable was removed, you had to remove one package because "Ubuntu is about simplicity"

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 released

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Post by smacktoward »

ihsw wrote: post #14
zanny wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They never gave out personal information, they just covered your dash with ads and clicking them gave Canonical affiliate revenue. They routed the searches through their servers to prevent Amazon from associating searches and IPs when they go to the actual site. And I (think?) this is the release where dash ads are default off.

There is no proof that they're not passing that information onto Amazon, and it's just a policy on their end. Policies can change and then we will have no recourse. The dash shouldn't be sending any user information to begin with. I get that Canonical needs to get profitable fast , so personally I think they should take the RedHat road and release 'Ubuntu Enterprise' or something to that effect. http://arstechnica.co…

> There is no proof that they're not passing that information onto Amazon, and it's just a policy on their end. Policies can change and then we will have no recourse.

Except for turning it off via the clearly marked option in the settings, or running a script that patches the feature out, or going into the source code and patching it out yourself, or waiting a few months until Canonical switches the default to "off."

But yeah, other than that, you have no recourse.

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 released

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Post by jcastro »

gcb0 wrote: post #23
zanny wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They never gave out personal information, they just covered your dash with ads and clicking them gave Canonical affiliate revenue. They routed the searches through their servers to prevent Amazon from associating searches and IPs when they go to the actual site. And I (think?) this is the release where dash ads are default off.

They send to Amazon what you type. And default was always on. And in latest versions option to disable was removed, you had to remove one package because "Ubuntu is about simplicity"

You can shut it off in the Privacy panel.

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 released

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Post by celebril »

floor_ wrote: post #8

Does Ubuntu still shill out personal data to Amazon?

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.

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