Thoughts on advertisements in Ubuntu 12.10

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Russell McOrmond
<russellmcormond at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> While us techies can turn this foreign-search off, less technical users
> won't know how.  This makes Ubuntu no longer what I can in good conscience
> recommend to less technical users.  It is commercial advertising, whether
> cannonical is making money or not. Who is making the money doesn't change
> that they are ads.

I wouldn't be so quick to judge this as not fit for less technical users.

I tend to agree that making search results return more stuff from the
get-go is a good move. It certainly will help less technical users
find things. I'm just a little sad that this went to Amazon rather
than Google, since the results would have a broader scope, be more
relevant to the new users, etc.

Let's keep in mind that most people don't know about stuff being sent
from their systems, and don't care, trusting developers to Do The
Right Thing (tm) and not expose them to privacy or security issues.

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu.tl at gmail.com>
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