No Canonical spying left in Ubuntu GNOME?

[Ali/amjjawad]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Christian Dysthe <cdysthe at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>


You will not have that kind of things on Ubuntu GNOME ;)




> >
> >
> >
> >
> >         It's a phenomenal distro btw. Love it so far! :)
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you for your feedback.
> >
> >
> > Ubuntu GNOME is indeed a great system :)
> > Enjoy!
> >
>
> >
>
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