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[Josh Strawbridge <holyknightjoshua@xxxxxxxxx>]

for some people and in some places it's much more important to keep track of
your internet use than in others.
for instance the way some places in the world have internet usage caps for
some plans that are so low a few youtube videos will easily put someone at
their cap.
so while one search might not be much they do add up.
it doesn't have to be a privacy issue for it to still be an issue.

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Ian Santopietro <isantop@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The thing is this isn't really a privacy issue. Sure, when you open
> the music lens and search for a song, it looks for the song online.
> But this isn't tied to the main "Dash" search (Home icon, or the one
> that opens by default). So it won't send out information at any time,
> only when you search on the music lens. And when you search on the
> music lens, you're looking for a song name, which aren't really
> confidential.
>
> On top of all of this, the data sent isn't any different from running
> a search on Google or Amazon. It doesn't send any information about
> *You*, only the query. It's still sending information, but it isn't
> sensitive, and none of it can be linked to you specifically.
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 03:31, Thibaut Brandscheid <randaltor@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> >>   sudo apt-get remove unity-scope-musicstores
> >
> > Thanks a lot for this answer.
> > I like the way Canonical went so fare - brave & good decisions - and
> Unity,
> > but if Ubuntu starts to send out all kind of things to the net. I for my
> > part will not stay and remove every time I do a fresh install these
> > components, I will just move to another flavor (Lubuntu) or leave Ubuntu
> > behind.
> >
> > For the moment my problem is solved with the removal of this package, but
> > what is with all the other average people out there that don't know how
> to
> > remove it and aren't okay with it either (sending there data unquestioned
> to
> > the net)?
> >
> > Thibaut
> >
> >
> >
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