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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 released by ihsw on Thursday April 17, 2014 @11:47AM (#7604322)
There is no proof that they're not passing that information onto Amazon, and it's just a policy on their end. Policies can change and then we will have no recourse.

The dash shouldn't be sending any user information to begin with.

I get that Canonical needs to get profitable fast, so personally I think they should take the RedHat road and release 'Ubuntu Enterprise' or something to that effect.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/02/how-red-hat-killed-i...

The 14.04 release has quite clearly shown that they have the expertise and industry collaboration to get the ball rolling on that.

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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 released by smacktoward on Thursday April 17, 2014 @12:07PM (#7604446)
> There is no proof that they're not passing that information onto Amazon, and it's just a policy on their end. Policies can change and then we will have no recourse.

Except for turning it off via the clearly marked option in the settings, or running a script that patches the feature out, or going into the source code and patching it out yourself, or waiting a few months until Canonical switches the default to "off."

But yeah, other than that, you have no recourse.

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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 released by higherpurpose on Thursday April 17, 2014 @12:13PM (#7604489)
I believe Microsoft did the same thing with Windows 8.1 (local file searches pass on to advertisers).
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