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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: unity-scopes-api (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  [security/privacy] Dash search setting should be removed

Status in ubuntu-system-settings package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in unity-scopes-api package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The setting for "Dash Search" to choose between "Phone only" and
  "Phone and Internet" should be removed. This setting made sense in
  Unity 7, but it's not really handled by the new scopes framework and
  moreover, it doesn't really make sense in Unity8 which doesn't have
  "search everything" Home screen; user now has full control over what
  scopes are searched (by adding them to favorites or enabling child
  scopes via settings of aggregator scopes).

  In other words, the current function of "Dash Search" setting is
  pretty much broken (only smartscopesproxy honors it, 3rd party or
  local scopes ignore it). This leads to user confusion and a bunch of
  bug reports such as https://bugs.launchpad.net/today-
  scope/+bug/1440576

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