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Another thing I found annoying with Ubuntu recently as I was preparing for the installfest, I found that you go through a page: "Show Ubuntu some love", that essentially prompts you to donate where there is a button at the bottom, "Pay with Paypal", to the left is a link, "not now take me to the download". I have no objection to contributing for free software. At the installfest we also ask a donation, and some of the Ubuntu people complained about that. I just think it is more of an in-your-face approach. I think it should have been done a bit better. On 12/13/2012 02:40 PM, Derek Martin wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:51:39AM -0500, Will Rico wrote: >> I'm sure most people on this list have read or heard about Richard >> Stallman's blog post from Friday entitled "Ubuntu Spyware: What to >> Do?" > Turn it off. It's very easy to do. It's annoying that an > organization prominent in the free software community has elected to > enable somewhat privacy-invasive software features by default, but > it's not really a problem. We are not sheep: We can think for > ourselves, and I daresay that most of us use Linux because we already > do. So the problem is more of a theoretical or philosophical one than > a practical one: > > sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping > > It's also possible to disable it via some GUI settings option or > other, but I don't remember where I saw that. I just vaguely remember > it being in a reasonably obvious location, something like "Privacy > Settings" or some such. > > You can, of course, also just use a different desktop environment, > like XFCE. > -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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