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[Xavier Guillot <Valeryan_24@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Problem for the moment with the opt-out is that it's global : if we turn
off in the Privacy options, it turns off the Dash home ALL internet
searches, not only shopping ones...

Perhaps I want to see by default in home the Gwibber lens results but
not Amazon ones, and if I have something to buy, I activate it or go to
shopping lens.

So at least we need in Raring a very more complete configurable option
in the Privacy, to be able to select lens by lens :

- which one(s) we want to keep installed on the system, on or off

- from which one(s) we want to see results in Dash home, too

Both can be activated and "On" by default, as it is Unity purpose and
wish, but we should get the possibility to configure them precisely.

Today it's not satisfying : I do not want to "apt-get remove shopping-
lens" as I buy sometimes in Amazon (and perhaps with the future
commercial partners) and would be happy to support Ubuntu by this way.

I do not want shopping results shown in Home, but I want Gwibber ones,
so I can not turn off "online search" option...

So perhaps we need to open a new bug, but this option would be the
minimum that Canonical should provide users.

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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:
  Triaged

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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