[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.10: advertising lenses

[Alan Pope]

On 24/09/12 23:51, J Fernyhough wrote:
> Ohhh, this could open up a can of worms. Does this mean everything I
> (hypothetically) type into the Dash is being transmitted to Canonical?
>

If you type in the home screen of the dash, the search term goes to a 
specific server at Canonical. It's currently http, but it's migrating to 
https very soon. As I understand it the backend is designed such that we 
don't store data about our users, even the IP addresses the requests 
come from gets munged.

We already had this in previous releases. If you search for something in 
the video or music lenses, that search goes to a Canonical server to see 
if there's any online video/music that matches your search. It works in 
_exactly_ the same way, just surfaced in the home screen of the dash, 
rather than a separate lens.

I think that's why many of us are a bit surprised there's such a bruhaha 
about this, given your video/music searches _already_ do this.

Cheers,
-- 
Alan Pope
Engineering Manager

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