Thoughts on advertisements in Ubuntu 12.10

[Darcy Casselman]

I admit, this whole thing has me perplexed.

I mean, I'm still rolling my eyes at all the conspiracy theorists.
Guys, c'mon.

What has me scratching my head, though, is what's the point of this?
What use case is it meant to solve?

I kinda get that they want the Dash to be an omni-search thing, with
lenses for various searches.  So I can see creating a "shopping" lens,
what value is there to exposing the results on the Home lens?  Is it
really any more useful to show a Kindle Fire in my Home lens than a
Bruce Springstein Youtube video when just I'm trying to launch
Firefox?

I think I'd be happier if they *were* making money off of it.  That,
at least, would make sense.

Darcy.

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Russell McOrmond
<russellmcormond at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is my translation of Shutgleworth's blog:  we (cannonical) aren't
> making money on the for-pay search results, so therefore it isn't an
> advertisement.
>
> 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.
>
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> On Sep 23, 2012 11:53 PM, "Stephen M. Webb" <stephen at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 09/23/2012 02:52 PM, Michael Stathers wrote:
>> > http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182
>> >
>> > This worries me. Your thoughts?
>>
>> What are your worries?
>>
>> You titled this email "Thoughts on advertisements in Ubuntu 12.10" but
>> gave a link to Shuttleworth's blog in which he
>> says up front "We’re not putting ads in Ubuntu."  Do you have a better
>> source on what's coming in Ubuntu 12.10 than
>> Mark Shuttleworth, and can you give that link, too?
>>
>>
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