Re: Does Ubuntu 12.04 come with Spyware?
Originally Posted by
ManamiVixen
Unity Shopping isn't Spyware or Adware. It Canonical's equvilent of ad-assisted software like seen on free Android apps. It's meant to help Canonical keep going. Zietgeist (Watching Ghost), Only allows for data sharing on your own PC and dosen't send the data anywhere. In fact, Zeitgiest has been used since Oneric for the original Unity. It didn't become an issue untill Shopping came about.
Anyways, I remember reading somewhere that a Canonical Employee was giving thoughts on Unity and its supposed spyware/adware to a linux news article. Unfortuantly I can't remember where, but he did say something along the lines of "If you are concerned about Ubuntu sending your data over the internet in the form of helpfull search queries, Ubuntu might not be for you."
(SO is what you are saying, that Ubuntu cannot be trusted? - or that it is becoming more lenient to giving out information?)
If I remove the following packages in Unity would i Break it in any way shape or form
"unity-scope-musicstores
unity-scope-video-remote"
Also Could I turn off the Zeitgeist feature using settings > privacy ?
Or do I need to do something else.
Thanks in advance
I just wish Ubuntu would not integrate this stuff into the desktop, any tracking of any kind that goes publicly uploaded, is not good..
If someone breaches into the server, they would be able to copy all that data! I Love Ubuntu and dont want to switch to another distro...but I dont like this one bit..
I switched away from Windows 7 to stay as far away from logging as possible.
I wont mind the changes as long as it is easy to ensure, that I can turn it off and it is not running.
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Last edited by Psil0cybin; March 25th, 2013 at 09:49 PM.
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