Public bug reported:

The setting for "Dash Search" to choose between "Phone only" and "Phone
and Internet" should be removed. This setting made sense in Unity 7, but
it's not really handled by the new scopes framework and moreover, it
doesn't really make sense in Unity8 which doesn't have "search
everything" Home screen; user now has full control over what scopes are
searched (by adding them to favorites or enabling child scopes via
settings of aggregator scopes).

In other words, the current function of "Dash Search" setting is pretty
much broken (only smartscopesproxy honors it, 3rd party or local scopes
ignore it). This leads to user confusion and a bunch of bug reports such
as https://bugs.launchpad.net/today-scope/+bug/1440576

** Affects: ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Invalid

** Affects: unity-scopes-api (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Pawel Stolowski (stolowski)
         Status: Confirmed

** Also affects: unity-scopes-api (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: unity-scopes-api (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Pawel Stolowski (stolowski)

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  [security/privacy] Dash search setting should be removed

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