No Canonical spying left in Ubuntu GNOME?

[Christian Dysthe]

On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 19:43 +0400, Ali/amjjawad wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Christian Dysthe <cdysthe at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         Hi,
>         
> 
> 
> Hi :)
> 
> 
>  
>         One of my main reasons for leaving stock Ubuntu for Ubuntu
>         GNOME was the
>         spying and sales pitches through the HUD in Unity. I couldn't
>         find a way
>         to get rid of it all. I do like Gnome Shell a lot but there
>         are aspects
>         of Ubuntu I would not like to give up (like PPA access) so
>         Ubuntu GNOME
>         was as close as I could get to what I had.
>         
>         One question I have though is whether all of the spyware like
>         additions
>         to stock Ubuntu is gone in Ubuntu GNOME (as long as I do not
>         add any
>         Unity related packages to my system)?. I just would like to
>         have
>         confirmed that Ubuntu GNOME is clean in this regard.
> 
> 
> We're not using (obviously) Unity, hence the name of our system
> (Ubuntu GNOME).
> 
> 
> Linux supposed to be secure and has no such thing as spying :)
> 
> 
> I am not really sure from where exactly that came from? seems to me a
> cheap joke by Linux hater who are trying to shake the solid ground but
> that is my personal opinion.
> 
> I'm not expert in Security but if you're too much worried about spying
> stuff, you shouldn't use Facebook or any other Social Media Network.
> In fact, there is nothing 100% secure over the Internet. I'm sure
> you're following the news :)

For me it's not so much about security as it is of noise. I do not want
to have all those commercial results show up on my desktop and I didn't
find a good way to disable it all.
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>  
>         
>         It's a phenomenal distro btw. Love it so far! :)
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you for your feedback.
> 
> 
> Ubuntu GNOME is indeed a great system :)
> Enjoy!
> 

> 

-- 
//Christian
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