On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:51:39AM -0500, Will Rico wrote: > I'm sure most people on this list have read or heard about Richard > Stallman's blog post from Friday entitled "Ubuntu Spyware: What to > Do?"
Turn it off. It's very easy to do. It's annoying that an organization prominent in the free software community has elected to enable somewhat privacy-invasive software features by default, but it's not really a problem. We are not sheep: We can think for ourselves, and I daresay that most of us use Linux because we already do. So the problem is more of a theoretical or philosophical one than a practical one: sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping It's also possible to disable it via some GUI settings option or other, but I don't remember where I saw that. I just vaguely remember it being in a reasonably obvious location, something like "Privacy Settings" or some such. You can, of course, also just use a different desktop environment, like XFCE. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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