On 12-09-24 10:56 AM, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote:
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/09/22/1319216/ubuntu-will-now-have-amazon-ads-pre-installed
Can we please calm down? There won't be ads. These are search results,
and the issue is being discussed to death elsewhere, including on
Mark's blog [1].
As usual, people are grossly overreacting even if I also do disagree
with some of the decisions made.
[1] http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182
I feel amazingly calm, just thought it was an interesting thing I had
not heard about yet.
There are however some contradictions on Mark's blog:
<snip>
We’re not putting ads in Ubuntu.
</snip>
but
<snip>
We picked Amazon as a first place to start because most of our users are
also regular users of Amazon, and it _pays us_ to make your Amazon
journey get off to a faster start.
</snip>
It is of course an affiliate ad, let's call a spade a spade. It is paid
results from amazon. If that is not an ad then I have been in the wrong
business for a while now.
Anyways, as long as it is an opt-in search option and not on by default,
and does not share private data from the rest of the lenses then I have
no problem with it really. Firefox has different search options in their
search bar, same dif. Seems basically a dumb feature, and I don't like
the idea of the search becoming some behemoth for searching the whole
world... I just want to find my apps, and maybe files. I have a web
browser for searching the web.
Jeremy
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