[ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

Barry Drake ubuntu-advertising at gmx.com
Sun Aug 30 16:07:07 UTC 2015


On 30/08/15 17:01, Colin Law wrote:

> How did you remove them?

In the Online Accounts settings window, on the Google account settings, 
each of these accounts shows an 'on/off' switch.  I turned all of them 
off to block access.  I didn't remove any software, or alter any other 
parameters.

Regards,		Barry.

> Colin
>
>> Shotwell
>> Photo Search Plugin
>> Google Drive Search plugin
>>
>> The last three are installed and activated by default.  I'm finding Google
>> very intrusive in the way it is using my personal data to sell to
>> advertisers, and to give me heavily targeted advertising.  I though I could
>> get away with it in Ubuntu - at the moment, in 15.10, the answer seems to be
>> 'no way'.  I do, however want to access Google Contacts, via the slightly
>> buggy but useable google-contacts app installed by default (I think) in Wily
>> - but that's all.  I'd like to have Thunderbird sync with these contacts,
>> but I have to do that manually at the moment.
>>
>> I think I'd better explain this in the bug report.
>>
>> Regards,                Barry.
>>
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