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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 released by gcb0 on Thursday April 17, 2014 @12:06PM (#7604438)
They send to Amazon what you type. And default was always on. And in latest versions option to disable was removed, you had to remove one package because "Ubuntu is about simplicity"
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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 released by keithpeter on Thursday April 17, 2014 @01:17PM (#7604904)
"And in latest versions option to disable was removed"

Nope, wrong way round. After the - er - strong reaction to the original appearance of the Amazon feature, later versions had a kill switch under Privacy. It was always possible simply to uninstall the appropriate package.

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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 released by gcb0 on Friday April 18, 2014 @03:25AM (#7608287)
when first introduced you could disable Amazon and keep useful ones like Flickr.

Layer you could only disable all. To disable only Amazon you had to remove a package or something.

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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 released by jcastro on Thursday April 17, 2014 @12:08PM (#7604456)
You can shut it off in the Privacy panel.
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