Canonical has just posted an interesting update regarding the integration of Lenses in Unity Dash and their role in making Ubuntu a complete and global solution. In Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal), Canonical has introduced an online search in the Home lens and everyone went berserk. Anticipating the interest in the evolu... (read more)
After the huge pressure exercised by the community, Canonical has implemented an option to stop the online dash searches.
We all remember the day when Mark Shuttelworth announced that Ubuntu 12.10 will include an Amazon lens and that it will be integrated into the Home lens.
A lot of people have questioned this ... (read more)
Canonical will try to make Ubuntu 13.04 its best release so far and one of the ways to do that is by improving the Dash functionality and its online features. We all remember the storm that took Canonical by surprise when they first announced that Unity Dash searches will be done online, especially in the Home lens.... (read more)
Ubuntu 12.10 has released with lots of new exciting features, but most users didn’t welcome the one feature which – integrates the amazon products in Unity dash serch results.
So, if you’ve installed Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) and hates this amazon results in Dash search, then you should know that it can be easily disabled from System Settings -> Privacy -> Include On
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Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu, has finally listened to critics and EFF and said that the much controversial online search feature of Dash will be disabled by default in Ubuntu 13.04, which will be released later this month.
Online integration and commercial search results in Ubuntu‘s Unity interface are here to stay–and will grow more comprehensive in the next release of the operating system, according to Canonical. But so, too, will tools for controlling and filtering results.
Starting with Ubuntu 12.10, Unity Dash will also return answers from Amazon, according to the founder of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth.
Ubuntu 12.10 includes a new shopping lens that shows Amazon search results in dash.
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Mark Shuttleworth explains info entered in dash sent to Canonical servers and on to Facebook and Amazon.
So to clarify: even if you disable shopping lens, your data - through dash is recorded by Canonical and available for paying third parties. I mistakenly thought the personal data recording was local to the user, for searches on your own system.
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