On 24/09/12 19:25, Juergen Schinker wrote:
For some of this content, if a user clicks the item and purchases it, it
will generate affiliate revenue that we can invest back into the project
(in a similar way to how we generate revenue from the Firefox search
bar). We have found affiliate revenue to be a good method of helping us
to continue to invest in maturing and growing Ubuntu.
I don't agree with this decision
I was not aware of this and consider it esp dreadful to set this as default in
Ubuntu 12.10.
You're aware of it now, mere days after it landed in the as-yet
unreleased development version of Ubuntu, some four weeks before 12.10
is released.
Canonical could engage in other ways gaining Revenue than patronizing
end-users....
Suggestions welcome. We'd love to hear them!
As having Ubuntu on mobile devices i don't appreciate unwanted Traffic from/to
Amazon
refering to a high price on mobile data transfer...
We've been thinking hard about this particular issue and it's not
straightforward to solve. Ideally NetworkManager should let us know when
the user is on a non-unlimited connection, but that's not easy to
determine. Especially when users have tethered to phones via a wifi, or
are using a portable hotspot.
Patches welcome!
A constant keepalive to Amazon is also not acceptable...
1) It's not just Amazon.
2) It's uninstallable
3) It's not a constant keepalive, only when you search in the home
screen of the dash
4) It doesn't go directly to Amazon (or other stores) anyway. It's
proxied via a Canonical server which anonymizes the requests.
Cheers,
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Engineering Manager
Canonical - Product Strategy
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