On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:18:41 +0100 J Fernyhough <j.fernyho...@gmail.com> wrote:
[snip] > > One solution is pretty straightforward: make online search features an > option in the installer (same page as third-party codecs) with a link > to the privacy policy etc. [/snip] How about a 'first run' screen similar to CentOS/Redhat installer except for each user that is created? You could page through some choices like country/codecs/advert choices/main use of device/ etc and the relevant country specific legal stuff could appear on each page. I suspect once the lawyers get going (privacy laws being different in different countries and for different age groups) we will need to have some kind opt in agreement anyway, so why not make it tidy and user friendly for those not in the know about stuff like this? The other issue is perhaps more personal to me: it just seems a *waste* somehow of bandwidth (I know, a few bytes in the firehose &c) and of server cycles (yes, I know, microscopic) to generate 'suggestions' for search terms like 'alf*19960401*crbok*.odt' or 'data*mean*sd' or similar. I'm not thinking about buying things when I'm searching for documents. Amazon don't have a profile to filter against previous purchases so the suggestions will be low quality and unspecific anyway. It will be interesting to see how much referral income you actually get. -- cheers -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
