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MechaMechanism
October 27th, 2010, 04:08 AM
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How unseemly of Ubuntu.

EDIT: I should say, how unseemly of Canonical.

Ctrl-Alt-F1
October 27th, 2010, 04:13 AM
Uhh...no it's not. Phish much?

WinterMadness
October 27th, 2010, 04:17 AM
canonical is a business

juancarlospaco
October 27th, 2010, 04:19 AM
You are searching Google on that text field thats it...

MechaMechanism
October 27th, 2010, 04:24 AM
You have to do a search before it shows up. Sure, Canonical is a business, it just shocked the heck out of me because it was on their help site. It's the only place I have ever seen ads on Canonical sites.

TiBaal89
October 27th, 2010, 04:25 AM
Seems like it's only on the search results page... that's not too offensive, they're just channeling google and google is bringing some crap along for the ride. If the ads were on the side of every page, that might be a different story...

wilee-nilee
October 27th, 2010, 04:27 AM
You have to do a search before it shows up. Sure, Canonical is a business, it just shocked the heck out of me because it was on their help site. It's the only place I have ever seen ads on Canonical sites.

And Google analytics is running in your browser if you don't block it on the UF, meh who cares come on.;)

MechaMechanism
October 27th, 2010, 04:36 AM
And Google analytics is running in your browser if you don't block it on the UF, meh who cares come on.;)
Well, after the shock wore off, it's no big deal. I run Google analytics on my site. :)