Responding to Mario Vukelic in # 118:  "And what are you talking about
'a new user who has yet to learn to use the terminal to remove the
shopping lens'? There is a switch in Privacy settings now."

Example: When I first set my sister's laptop up with Ubuntu, it took her
quite a while to learn to administer the machine from terminal OR from
GUI  without having to call me up on the phone for tech support, or
worse, make arrangements to bring the machine over for tech support.

Worst-case example: Person A gives an Ubuntu CD to person B after
hearing one too many phone calls for tech support on Windoze. Person B
installs from that live disk, only to get a dash full of ads. Person B
is furious with person A,  who was not present to remove the shopping
lens at install time.

As for why I have not seen the switch in privacy settings, that is
because I never installed and never will install any kind of shopping
lens. In addtion, I always remove Zeitgeist from my systems and block
the recently-used.xbel file to prevent any attacker from copying
recently used data. In addition this protects the privacy of anyone I
give an unencrypted version of my private fork by default.

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  Don't include remote searches in the home lens

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