Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed
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Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed
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#2What the hell... I'll never use Ubuntu again. Or well, at least not for a while, even after it's removed. They call this "free software"?
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#3O Cmn...just take some money instead. I can shell out a few dollars.
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#4Looks more like a tax on the average user. Apparently they are trivial to remove:
sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping
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#5Still on 10.04, suppose I'll stay here a while.
ps- Aadvertising Aardvark? Commercial Coelacanth?
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#6What the hell... I'll never use Ubuntu again. Or well, at least not for a while, even after it's removed. They call this "free software"?
Do you currently? Because I think there are already (12.04) some links to Amazon Instant videos in Unity by default.
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#7It will be interesting to know why Amazon was the choice.
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#8Fedora is looking pretty tasty right now
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#9CANT MAKE MONEY ON FREE AS IN 0$ PEOPLE...the lights don't keep themselves on (at least not yet).
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#10I can live with this (or uninstall it) but will they fix my audio? It had been fine after about 8.04, but has been broken by every update that included Unity by default.