Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?

Re:Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do? by reidrac on Friday December 07, 2012 @10:30AM (#4887286)

In fact it turns out that 12.04 has some lens making queries to different services when I was searching stuff using the dash, and I didn't know about it.

I fixed it with: sudo apt-get remove unity-scope-musicstores unity-lens-video unity-lens-music

(I couldn't find how to disable it)

It's not like I agreed to this when I installed the system, because I upgraded from a previous version (and a previous version, etc), and that behaviour wasn't there.

I don't know how Canonical could advertise these changes, but in the Amazon lens case I think RMS did it right.

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Re:Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do? by jcastro on Friday December 07, 2012 @11:11AM (#4887520)

You can disable it via the GUI in the Privacy settings: http://askubuntu.com/a/192270/235

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Re:Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do? by reidrac on Friday December 07, 2012 @11:58AM (#4887834)

I said 12.04 and not 12.10. There's no way of disabling the lens I removed in 12.04 (may be because they got introduced in that release).

EDIT: at least I couldn't find a way to disable them. Nothing in privacy settings and nothing with dconf-editor.

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