Thoughts on advertisements in Ubuntu 12.10

[Eric]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <
mathieu.tl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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Ok, so head's up, playing Devil's Advocate here:

The odd time I watch "the normals" on the internet (cafe's are a wonderful
place for seeing people let their guard down, btw), they aren't looking to
research anything, they're looking for some form of social connection (ie
facebook/twitter/email/...), or for some product they're interested in.

Not what I do most of the time either, but I'd be curious to see if that is
the majority.  Keeping in mind that Canonical probably already has this
info, they may not be that far off the mark.
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