[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.10: advertising lenses

[scoundrel50a]

On 25/09/2012 00:08, Alan Pope wrote:
> 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,
Its similar to apples voice......goes to their servers and then back to 
you.......its why I dont use it....be interesting to know how android 
voice search works if it works in the same way......how much gets kept 
of the search and if it does for how long.....