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@starfrost In 2012 Canonical added Amazon search results. It was shown by default when searching for anything (even local programs), sending your keypresses to an online server: omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/online

This "feature" was eventually removed.

26 April at 10:21 | Open on chaos.social
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Kevin Karhan :verified:
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@starfrost @SylvieLorxu @micahflee at least it was easy to yeet, but still, #Shuttleworth and #Canonical / @ubuntu 's reaction at first really pissed off a lot of people for all the right reasons...

26 April at 10:45 | Open on infosec.space
Potung Thul

@kkarhan
@starfrost @SylvieLorxu @micahflee @ubuntu

I remember that one. Shuttleworth said that lot of people were asking whether they trusted #Canonical with stuff they could send to third parties. "Erm, you DO trust us. We have root."

Idiot. We're doubting you BECAUSE you have root. We could choose a different distro.

It's like you lent your car keys to your friend to bring you something from your car, and s/he ends up driving the car away, saying, "You DO trust me. I have 'key'."

@kkarhan
@starfrost @SylvieLorxu @micahflee @ubuntu

I remember that one. Shuttleworth said that lot of people were asking whether they trusted #Canonical with stuff they could send to third parties. "Erm, you DO trust us. We have root."

Idiot. We're doubting you BECAUSE you have root. We could choose a different distro.

27 April at 6:27 | Open on toot.io
Brian David

@SylvieLorxu @starfrost That was also around the time that Ubuntu decided they had to change their totally fine desktop to an unusable desktop because, as far as I can tell, they got bored.

27 April at 3:02 | Open on hachyderm.io
Chris [list of emoji]

@bcdavid @SylvieLorxu @starfrost

Ah, yes. I remember those days...

Me: *uses Fedora and a perfectly fine Gnome 2 UI*

Fedora: Guess what? We're switching to the incomprehensible mess that is Gnome 3.

Me: Okay, that's the last straw. I'm switching to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu: Hey guess what? We're replacing your perfectly fine desktop with this thing we crapped out that everyone will hate.

Me: *cries*

27 April at 6:15 | Open on freeradical.zone
Microsoft ate my computer

@bcdavid @SylvieLorxu @starfrost Ubuntu Unity is still continued as an unofficial desktop (although it might now be an officially-recognized distro). Unity just up on distrowatch with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

27 April at 12:38 | Open on todon.eu
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