Le 11/10/2011 13:43, Jo-Erlend Schinstad a écrit :
I was a little bit surprised to read that the Music Lense will
actually send your searches to an online database by default and
without asking any permission beforehand. In earlier versions of
Ubuntu, things like popcon have not been activated by default and
you've always been confident that there are no open ports and no data
being transmitted unless you've asked for it.
I had difficulties believing this to be true, so I tested it. I
searched for an artist of which I have no records, and sure enough,
the music lense told me I could purchase it. I then disconnected from
the network and searched again and this time, I got no advertisement.
A very simple test that anyone can perform, and it indicated to me
that the search was indeed being sent to some online service. Does
this apply to all my searches? What else is being uploaded about me?
I was just about to sniff my network to see for myself when I came to
my senses... If people even get the impression that they are being
monitored by their own system, then Ubuntu has certainly lost.
Technologies like Zeitgeist are great, but they also mean it's more
important than ever that absolutely no information is being
transmitted without asking permission first and that user always knows
what is being sent. The feeling of loosing that confidence was not a
good one.
I think the advertisements in the lenses, whether it's for software or
music, needs to be deactivated. Not only does it validate the notion
that Ubuntu is "free for a reason, just like GMail", but it might also
cause users to loose confidence in their own privacy.
It just isn't worth it.
Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Hey Jo-Erland,
Thanks for sharing your concern, however this is only for music
searches, nothing personal to you is uploaded. It's the same than the
automatic apt-get update which is done: there is a request with your ip
to get the latest package list, so a connexion on the network you are
maybe not aware of.
This search is performed by the ubuntuone music scope from the music
lens (unity-scope-musicstores) that you can remove independtly from the
music lens. This is not at all advertisement, but just a way for people
to find the same result that they can perform in banshee with the
ubuntuone music store.
Just note that you can basically have the same reaction when banshee is
looking for a thumbnail of the currently listened albums and we heard no
complain about it? I get your reaction is only because you perceive it
as advertisement, which is not the case there? What can we do so that
it's not perceived this way?
Didier
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