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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 released by null_ptr on Thursday April 17, 2014 @12:56PM (#7604757)
What does sending your local search terms to Canonical and Amazon do to advance technology, exactly? All these desperate attempts at monetization off users' privacy are disgusting, and it's sad to see companies big and small stoop to that level.
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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 released by jcastro on Thursday April 17, 2014 @01:02PM (#7604797)
Local search terms aren't sent to the web, the Dash is a search box for local and remote sources (it tells you in the description before you type anything in there. The point is for you to be able to search everything in one spot. So you can do `github:docker`, or `wiki:dinosaurs` or whatever.

You can either explicitly search locally by using Super-A, or turn off online search in the dash entirely via the privacy panel.

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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 released by cynicist on Sunday April 20, 2014 @05:10PM (#7618500)
Yeah I agree. It's pretty disgusting for some company to make a product and then expect some kind of compensation for it.
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