On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 4:28 PM, C de-Avillez <hgg...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 05/11/12 09:08, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > > This is from my perspective though > > and I have not really followed all too closely since I am the type of > > person to remove what I don't want and block stuff like Canonical's > > NTP and other tracking via our hardware firewalls instead of > > complaining about stuff that I myself can fix. > > I am curious on what is this "block stuff like Canonical's NTP and > other tracking...". > Hi, wild guess: "other tracking" may be completely unrelated to canonical here. On "Canonical's NTP" it is indeed some kind of tracking, I remember seeing some estimates of the global number of ubuntu users based on statistics from canonical's NTP servers. To be perfectly clear: there is IMHO nothing wrong about this, I see more value in this kind of statistics than I have problems with canonical knowing my IP address and the time at which I turn my computer on. I just agree that it is indeed some form of tracking. On the more specific problem of amazon search integrated into unity, I think the feature is a pretty cool one and I suppose that canonical did honestly what it could to respect privacy here, but I share the EFF's concerns as well. IMHO, it would not be a bad move from canonical to make it opt-in (and to advertise it when it is disabled) or to add a button to "include web results in this search" on demand. Best. -- Aurélien Naldi
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