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Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn... by dc3k on Saturday March 18, 2017 @08:57PM (#13904465)
> trying to ram this type of behaviour down my throat is despicable unethical behaviour and I don't condone it. It is why I've switched to Linux for my daily computing needs.

Last time I used Linux (well, Ubuntu specifically) every time I searched for anything in the file system I would see at least half a dozen ads for products on Amazon. Significantly worse than anything I've ever seen in Windows 10 personally. Uninstalled it and never using it again.

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Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn... by pera on Saturday March 18, 2017 @09:36PM (#13904630)
I believe Ubuntu was the only Linux distribution doing such thing (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.en.html). You may want to try some other distribution like Fedora, openSUSE or Debian.
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Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn... by simion314 on Sunday March 19, 2017 @04:54AM (#13906016)
There was just 1 checkbox to turn it off, not lots of checkboxes and hidden registry entries like in Windows and I think not all telemetry can be turned off on normal Windows, you need Enterprise
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Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn... by reactor on Saturday March 18, 2017 @10:00PM (#13904734)
Not anymore, they (Ubuntu) turned it off.
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Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn... by pmiller2 on Saturday March 18, 2017 @08:58PM (#13904475)
Really? I've never seen that. Is it under GNOME in the default install?
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Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn... by pikzen on Saturday March 18, 2017 @09:00PM (#13904487)
It was in one of Ubuntu's releases, 16.04 I believe? Unity included Amazon results in its search results.

EDIT: 12.04. Time flies. Memory sucks.

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Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn... by ericd on Saturday March 18, 2017 @09:08PM (#13904518)
I'm using 16.04 right now, how does one trigger those? I've never seen them.
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Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn... by pikzen on Saturday March 18, 2017 @09:10PM (#13904525)
I was wrong, it was actually in the 12.04 days. Didn't remember it to be so long ago. I believe it's disabled by default in newer releases.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2840401/ubuntus-unity-8-deskt...

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Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn... by aban on Saturday March 18, 2017 @09:38PM (#13904640)
It was indeed 12.04 and only affecting Unity (Canonical's Desktop Environment), not other DE's like GNOME or KDE.

You should check out https://fixubuntu.com nonetheless, which surfaced at that time, is still up and relevant.

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Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn... by ericd on Sunday March 19, 2017 @08:38AM (#13906723)
Ah that's good that they seem to have come to their senses.
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Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn... by dws on Saturday March 18, 2017 @09:17PM (#13904551)
I found it fairly easy to turn those off. YMapparentlyV'd.
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Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn... by vacri on Saturday March 18, 2017 @09:43PM (#13904673)
Yes, one distro (of dozens people use) tried running ads once, it was a PR disaster, and they stopped doing it quite a while back.
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Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn... by mappu on Sunday March 19, 2017 @12:04AM (#13905108)
The Unity fiasco wasn't the only PR disaster Ubuntu has had over monetizing Amazon integration: around the 11.04 timeframe they semi-blackmailed Banshee over their integrated music store and added Canonical affiliate links.
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Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn... by mattmanser on Sunday March 19, 2017 @07:26AM (#13906468)
That a bit like saying "Google, one of dozens of browser makers".

Ubuntu has 50% market share.

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Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn... by vacri on Sunday March 19, 2017 @05:14PM (#13909681)
If you want to be pedantic about it, why not focus on the ads being half a decade ago and not in the past couple of LTS releases?
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