Thanks to Mike Davis for the summary. I'd just like to add that I really hope to see this issue fixed in 13.04.
As a formerly very active member of the Ubuntu LoCo and present free software activist, I really don't feel I can recommend Ubuntu 12.10 to anyone as long as this bug stands. It's a betrayal of the values that formerly led me to support Ubuntu and struggle to get the word out to people, and after 12.04 (which is an excellent system BTW) I may well have to start recommending that people use Trisquel or Debian instead of Ubuntu. As a user, my strong feeling is that if my computer is to search for anything online it's because *I* ask it to, explicitly. If Amazon search is opt-out not opt-in, a very basic trust is betrayed. While a genuine privacy concern is standing, also note that the Ubuntu brand IS being tarnished. A lot of valuable community members and users are having second thoughts because of it. I think that's not in the interest of either Canonical, Ubuntu or anyone else in the free software community. Ubuntu needs to stay strong and well-respected. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1073114 Title: Shopping Lens Does Not Respect User Privacy To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libunity/+bug/1073114/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
