popularity-contest spyware! :)

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Lee Braiden Wrote: 
> line spyware as a standard install.[/color]

> 

> Well, if you install packages over the net, rather than off cd, then
> you're 

> basically giving away this information anyway.  That doesn't mean that
> it's 

> collected, though.  I doubt that popularity contest tracks your
> software use 

> and assigns it to you a personal identifier that represents you and
> could be 

> used for advertising or something like that.  It's just for keeping
> track of 

> how popular different packages are, as the name suggests.  A valid
> concern, 

> though.

> 

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Quite strange though that it is installed by default in breezy,
considering the popcon.ubuntu page hasn't been updated since june...
(the graph showing results from october was already there in june)
Would be interesting to see the updated results.


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