For those people, in those situations, uninstalling the music store scope is the best option.
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 13:23, Josh Strawbridge <holyknightjos...@gmail.com> wrote: > for some people and in some places it's much more important to keep track of > your internet use than in others. > for instance the way some places in the world have internet usage caps for > some plans that are so low a few youtube videos will easily put someone at > their cap. > so while one search might not be much they do add up. > it doesn't have to be a privacy issue for it to still be an issue. > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Ian Santopietro <isan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The thing is this isn't really a privacy issue. Sure, when you open >> the music lens and search for a song, it looks for the song online. >> But this isn't tied to the main "Dash" search (Home icon, or the one >> that opens by default). So it won't send out information at any time, >> only when you search on the music lens. And when you search on the >> music lens, you're looking for a song name, which aren't really >> confidential. >> >> On top of all of this, the data sent isn't any different from running >> a search on Google or Amazon. It doesn't send any information about >> *You*, only the query. It's still sending information, but it isn't >> sensitive, and none of it can be linked to you specifically. >> >> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 03:31, Thibaut Brandscheid <randal...@web.de> >> wrote: >> > >> >> sudo apt-get remove unity-scope-musicstores >> > >> > Thanks a lot for this answer. >> > I like the way Canonical went so fare - brave & good decisions - and >> > Unity, >> > but if Ubuntu starts to send out all kind of things to the net. I for my >> > part will not stay and remove every time I do a fresh install these >> > components, I will just move to another flavor (Lubuntu) or leave Ubuntu >> > behind. >> > >> > For the moment my problem is solved with the removal of this package, >> > but >> > what is with all the other average people out there that don't know how >> > to >> > remove it and aren't okay with it either (sending there data >> > unquestioned to >> > the net)? >> > >> > Thibaut >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana >> > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Ian Santopietro >> >> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. >> See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html >> >> "Eala Earendel enlga beorohtast >> Ofer middangeard monnum sended" >> >> Pa gur yv y porthaur? >> Public GPG key (RSA): >> >> http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x412F52DB1BBF1234 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana >> Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > -- > Josh Strawbridge > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Ian Santopietro Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html "Eala Earendel enlga beorohtast Ofer middangeard monnum sended" Pa gur yv y porthaur? Public GPG key (RSA): http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x412F52DB1BBF1234 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
