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[Ian Santopietro <isantop@xxxxxxxxx>]

For those people, in those situations, uninstalling the music store
scope is the best option.

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 13:23, Josh Strawbridge
<holyknightjoshua@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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