The End of 2012: Ubuntu's Spyware

There was the issue with it have unsavory things. It's showing me a dildo when I asked for double a batteries or right because double a batteries appear in the root the search results for that item, right? And None of that helped and so in December, so we're talking october is when that landed but by December that year rms have made a video where he called it spyware, right? and the eff Blogged about it and called it amazon data leaks uh, and so The end of 2012 uh was was not pleasant because You know, everyone was hating on Ubuntu because of this feature um and so That that didn't go down well and it was very

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