I don't understand why you think there is a privacy issue because of
searching a song title. Nobody said any other information will be
sent with the search query and as long as it stays that way, why
would there be any issue? Of course, once you try to purchase a
song, required information exchange has to be made but that is so
anyway. If implemented cleanly, it wouldn't be any different than a
Google search.
The only possible issue here might be speed. I mean if every time a
song query is made, an Internet DB will be accessed, the whole
process may feel slow.
Overall, I guess a quick solution is an option to turn-off the
online search feature.
Eylem
On 10/10/2011 6:58 PM, Thibaut Brandscheid wrote:
Houston, we have a problem
Part I - The Problem
I just read an interview on linuxuser.co.uk
with Gerry Carr.
With this release, we’re bringing out the
Music Lens, which offers a Dash-like experience and allows you
to use the search bar to search for, let’s say, Abba – it’ll
display all the Abba that you have locally on your machine,
and it’ll also display any Abba available in the Ubuntu One
cloud, and then also it will – and I’m not
quite sure if this is going to land at release, or just after
– but basically it’ll also allow you to access all the
Abba that’s available on the Amazon Music Store or on the
Ubuntu One Music Store, so I can purchase that directly
within the same Lens.
After reading this I started Oneiric in VirtualBox and yes,
there is a 'Available for Purchase' section in the music lens.
Now, the problem:
Dose this mean every time, I repeat, every time I search
for a song on my computer with the Music Lens (11.10 or bigger)
will query an DB in the Internet?
If this is
true, Ubuntu & I have a problem. A privacy problem
to be more specific.
I don't think that an average user expects that every time he
enters a song title into the Music Lens it will be send through
the net - I believe that he expects that every thing stays
locally and will be processed on his computer as long as he dose
not clearly interact with the net (browsing, uploading files to
U1, chatting, using Gwibber ...).
One big reason why I use Linux is that it doesn't send all kind
of informations to companies (Amazon - if I would not care I
would buy a Mac).
Part II - Suggestion to solve the problem
Okay, vented enough frustration, now something constructive.
The approach of the file lens doesn't work here, it is not
"possible" to store a Ubuntu One Music Store
and Amazon Music Store title DB on Ubuntu locally to prevent
sending of just tipped-in informations always through the
Internet.
My solution is as simple as powerful → a Shop Lens.
What again a new lens, but wait. The shop lens could combine
different sources and display search entries in categories. This
would solve above raised problems. The user expects the shop
lens to query online DB's to get results and it would avoid that
every entered text phrase to the music lens would be send
through the net (without user knowledge, and maybe without his
accordance).
It would also "debug" the unpleasant (and less liked) 'Apps
Available for Download' in the application lens (I like the idea
of 'Available for Download', but not in the App Lens - where I
see it all times but use it only ~0.5% of the time).
If the Shop Lens is extensionable by add-ons other vendors could
add there own shop to it. This way it would be the perfect place
to search for new input (free & paid) and for the user would
be clear what he gets there (better than mixing different topics
in to one lens → 'Available...' in App-Music lens).
Uff, pretty long mail :)
your turn
Thibaut
PS: I know, don't make lenses for everything. But this time I
think it would be a good idea to separate local and online
queries and to have one place in the system to search for new
stuff.
PPS: How to turn the 'Available for Purchase' function in
Oneiric off?
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