I know it's very easy to just "sudo apt-get purge unity-lens-shopping" - and we all should really appreciate that Canonical made it that easy to opt out of this new feature-, but I also believe it should be opt-in and have its own separate lens, both for avoiding adware accusations as for cluttering the home lens.
I think it should be made obligatory that all features like this one expose options in the Privacy Manager. Ubuntu was praised by the EFF for advancing its privacy management, so let's handle this move properly instead of rushing it and tainting its reputation. (And hey, if you wanna be heard, just stop the ever-annoying "I'm moving to/recomending whatever distro" threats. Things like that add nothing to the arguments in question and make you look like spoiled adolescents. There are good points in this thread, please don't let them become lost amidst flame baits. When people say they rather install an almost completely different OS than to just remove a package there's no room left for discussing rationally.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1054776 Title: Don't include remote searches in the home lens To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-lens-shopping/+bug/1054776/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
