On Feb. 14th, Will Cooke of Canonical announced that Ubuntu 18.04 will have data collection features added to it. My questions are:
- What is the LinuxMint team's viewpoint on this?
- Will the team use the 18.04 LTS as the base for the next release of Mint or will they switch to another base distro?
- What are the opinions of the community members?
Personally, I think its a terrible idea in the realm of betrayal of trust. There are reasons why I choose and recommend Mint vs. the raw Ubuntu. Privacy is a big part of it.
Below are some URLs to the relevant information. Please understand that this is not an attempt to stir-up or spread controversy.
Ubuntu mail-list link:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubunt ... 40139.html
OMG Ubuntu article:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/ubun ... on-opt-out
FossBytes article:
https://fossbytes.com/ubuntu-data-collection/
Quidsub youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYyJMf1cmWY
Youtube video by "Switched to Linux":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSctodg-3LA
Ubuntu 18.04 data collection announcement
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Re: Ubuntu 18.04 data collection announcement
Guess I will not be testing Ubuntu 18.04 anytime soon.
Re: Ubuntu 18.04 data collection announcement
Just imagine the blow back one will encounter in discussions about Linux. As soon as we cite the privacy issues of Win 10, any clown within a google search will counter that point with Will Cooke's mail-list post, and the OMG Ubuntu article where they clearly are trying to make it seem like its no big deal. Worse is if I get someone to try Linux and I bring up privacy issues only to have this data collection mess be thrown back at me a few weeks/months down the line. It will look like I intentionally tried to mislead them.
Re: Ubuntu 18.04 data collection announcement
Conversation about this is already happening on the board and, yes, comparisons to Windows 10 are being made.
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Re: Ubuntu 18.04 data collection announcement
Please continue the discussion to the existing similar topic as linked above. Thanks!
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