popularity-contest

[Jeffrey F. Bloss]

NoOp wrote:

> >> > On a fresh install you are asked if you wish to participate, at least I
> >> > was on Ubuntu (Feisty), Kubuntu (Feisty) and Debian Etch. Not sure
> >> > about upgrades tho'.
> >> hrmm.. I don't remember that during Edgy...
> > 
> > I believe it's installed automatically by default, but disabled. My
> > feeble memory seems to recall seeing some dialog about enabling it
> > along the way somewhere in the Edgy install, but I could be wrong
> > about that.
> 
> Don't recall being asked. All of my installs are via the alternate CD's
> and while I may have a slight case of CRS, I honestly don't recall this.

Haven't done an alternate yet myself but I think I'm about to for a
local Computer Club project. I was referring to the Edgy desktop
install, and again my memory could be faulty.

I'm pretty sure I was never asked about it on my Dapper server install
though, yet it's installed but inactive on that machine too.

> 
> In any even, it doesn't matter any more... it's been uninstalled.

I'd be a lot more upset if P-C phoned home by default. I see that sort
of data mining as inherently evil even when it's voluntary, so finding
out Ubuntu did this surreptitiously would be something that makes me
choose another distro.

I've been aware of P-C since I switched to Ubuntu from Fedora (Fedora
has a similar program too if memory serves), but I haven't uninstalled
the package because I do believe it won't utter a word without being
kicked. You're right that it's best to just nuke the sucker to be sure
though.

> > It's in System > Administration > Software Sources, on the Statistics
> > tab if you want to check. If you weren't previously aware of it it
> > *should* still be disabled.
> > 
> 
> In Feisty there is a tab for this, in Dapper there is not.

Is there no "gooey" interface to it at all? That to me wouldn't make
much sense. How many people are even aware of dpkg-reconfigure, let
alone brave enough to run such a primitive command line tool? ;) Seems
like they're discarding a pretty sizeable source of data...

> 
> I guess it's time to fire up the utils to see what else is calling home.

Good luck with that. Not with gathering the intel, but sorting it all
out. ;-)

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