www/philosophy ubuntu-spyware.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       14/04/17 22:20:41

Modified files:
        philosophy     : ubuntu-spyware.html 

Log message:
        Give more explanation of why Ubuntu surveillance is not anonymous.
        Minor text shortening.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.12&r2=1.13

Patches:
Index: ubuntu-spyware.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.html,v
retrieving revision 1.12
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -b -r1.12 -r1.13
--- ubuntu-spyware.html 12 Apr 2014 12:40:48 -0000      1.12
+++ ubuntu-spyware.html 17 Apr 2014 22:20:40 -0000      1.13
@@ -57,13 +57,16 @@
   Ubuntu sends the same information.</p>
 
 <p>Ubuntu uses the information about searches to show the user ads to buy
-  various things from Amazon.  Amazon commits many wrongs (see
-  <a 
href="http://stallman.org/amazon.html";>http://stallman.org/amazon.html</a>); by 
promoting Amazon, Canonical
-  contributes to them.  However, the ads are not the core of the
-  problem.  The main issue is the spying.  Canonical says it does not
-  tell Amazon who searched for what.  However, it is just as bad for
-  Canonical to collect your personal information as it would have been
-  for Amazon to collect it.</p>
+  various things from Amazon.  
+  <a href="http://stallman.org/amazon.html";>Amazon commits many
+  wrongs</a>; by promoting Amazon, Canonical contributes to them.
+  However, the ads are not the core of the problem.  The main issue is
+  the spying.  Canonical says it does not tell Amazon who searched for
+  what.  However, it is just as bad for Canonical to collect your
+  personal information as it would have been for Amazon to collect it.
+  Ubuntu surveillance
+  is <a 
href="http://nathanheafner.com/home/2013/09/22/ubuntu-dash-search-is-not-anonymous/";>not
+  anonymous</a>.</p>
 
 <p>People will certainly make a modified version of Ubuntu without this
   surveillance.  In fact, several GNU/Linux distros are modified
@@ -207,7 +210,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2014/04/12 12:40:48 $
+$Date: 2014/04/17 22:20:40 $
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 </p>
 </div>