On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 4:28 PM, C de-Avillez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hggdh2@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">hggdh2@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 05/11/12 09:08, Jordon Bedwell wrote:<br>
> This is from my perspective though<br>
> and I have not really followed all too closely since I am the type of<br>
> person to remove what I don't want and block stuff like Canonical's<br>
> NTP and other tracking via our hardware firewalls instead of<br>
> complaining about stuff that I myself can fix.<br>
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</div>I am curious on what is this "block stuff like Canonical's NTP and<br>
other tracking...".<br></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>Hi,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">wild guess: "other tracking" may be completely unrelated to canonical here.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">On "Canonical's NTP" it is indeed some kind of tracking, I remember seeing some estimates of the global number of ubuntu users based on statistics from canonical's NTP servers.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">To be perfectly clear: there is IMHO nothing wrong about this, I see more value in this kind of statistics than I have problems with canonical knowing my IP address and the time at which I turn my computer on.<br clear="all">
<div>I just agree that it is indeed some form of tracking.</div><div><br></div><div>On the more specific problem of amazon search integrated into unity, I think the feature is a pretty cool one and I suppose that canonical did honestly what it could to respect privacy here, but I share the EFF's concerns as well. IMHO, it would not be a bad move from canonical to make it opt-in (and to advertise it when it is disabled) or to add a button to "include web results in this search" on demand.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best.</div><div><br></div>-- <br>Aurélien Naldi<br>
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