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Re:Ubuntu Will No Longer Track Which Packages Users Install by lewiscollard on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:41AM (#23846822)
On Ubuntu you still have to explicitly enable it - and unless I missed something in my last couple of Ubuntu installs you are never prompted to enable it during installation. If you want to opt in, you have to do a dpkg-reconfigure and even then the default is still "No".

This is not privacy-hostile in any meaningful way.

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Re:Ubuntu Will No Longer Track Which Packages Users Install by nitrogen on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @12:22PM (#23847485)
Is the hubbub about popularity contest or about the Snap store?
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Re:Ubuntu Will No Longer Track Which Packages Users Install by Shared404 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:02PM (#23850035)
It's about popcon, except for the people who didn't read the article.
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