[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.10: advertising lenses

[Juergen Schinker]

----- Original Message -----
> On 22/09/12 19:29, keith wrote:
> > I'm happily using 12.04 on my laptop. I've just found out that
> > Canonical has a tie-up with Amazon for 12.10 onwards. There is some
> > discussion about what information will be sent to Amazon when
> > executing
> > a local search.
> >
> > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4558489
> >
> > Any information on this?
> >
> 
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-September/035905.html
> 
 
 I don't agree with this decision esp.

quote from olver ries mail
> For some of this content, if a user clicks the item and purchases it, it
> will generate affiliate revenue that we can invest back into the project
> (in a similar way to how we generate revenue from the Firefox search
> bar). We have found affiliate revenue to be a good method of helping us
> to continue to invest in maturing and growing Ubuntu.

I don't agree with this decision

I was not aware of this and consider it esp dreadful to set this as default in Ubuntu 12.10.


Canonical could engage in other ways gaining Revenue than patronizing end-users....

As having Ubuntu on mobile devices i don't appreciate unwanted Traffic from/to Amazon
refering to a high price on mobile data transfer...

A constant keepalive to Amazon is also not acceptable...

J