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[Edwin de Jong <g.e.dejong@xxxxxxxxx>]

It seems Ubuntu forgot the meaning of Ubuntu (from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(philosophy)

- "Ubuntu ... is an African ethic or humanist philosophy focusing on people's allegiances and relations with each other."
- "I am what I am because of who we all are."
- "Ubuntu does not mean that people should not enrich themselves. The question therefore is: Are you going to do so in order to enable the community around you to be able to improve?"

Now, dear administration of Ubuntu: how many allegiances do you break
with your user base by this move? How does your decision reflect that of
what we all are? Do you enable the community around you to improve by
taking their privacy?

This past month, I have lost faith in Ubuntu's ability to reflect its
users need. Unfortunately, I will move to another distribution, such as
Mint or Debian. Previously, I have moved to other distro's out of
curiosity. This is the first time I move because I have lost trust.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1054776

Title:
  Don't include remote searches in the home lens

Status in “unity-lens-shopping” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Recent news (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/online-shopping-
  features-arrive-in-ubuntu-12-10) indicates that the home lens will, by
  default, search Amazon for products to put in the 'More suggestions'
  section. This means that regular searches for local applications and
  files are transmitted to a remote server, which I believe breaks an
  expectation of privacy. It also seems somewhat tasteless for my
  operating system to be advertising things I might want to buy.
  Finally, the idea that Ubuntu is now ad-supported has brought
  considerable negative PR on tech news sites like Slashdot and Hacker
  News.

  All of these problems could be easily avoided if the shopping lens
  were separate, rather than showing results in the home lens.  The
  shopping results would still be very convenient when the user wanted
  to see them - they could opt in with a single click, as we currently
  can with the video lens, for example.

  To anticipate one likely response: I understand that this feature can
  be removed by uninstalling the package. I believe it should be opt-in,
  not opt-out, and I also think the feature is useful, so I don't want
  to remove it completely from my system.

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