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Ubuntu has had all three of those things. Amazon ads in the search bar was awhile back. Not sure but I assume they still hijack installing Firefox using apt and instead install it using snap. And Ubuntu Pro popups are a new thing.
It's ridiculous how Ubuntu went from the easiest entry to Linux to one of the most hated distros in the community. Seriously, I'll never understand how the broken brains of their leadership even work.
Not so much broken as change of focus. Their focus now is money, and it's hard to turn down hundreds of millions of dollars.
There are ways to not having to turn them down while still providing a good product.
Ah, now it's clear. The Apple of the Linux world.
You forgot selling user searches to amazon
Now that I was not aware of. WTF?
https://youtu.be/CP8CNp-vksc?si=6sXTXQcTG0dQpJqy&t=89
That's insane.
Does anyone know if this is still the case? This video is 11 years old, but logic and common sense tell me that, if anything, it should be even worse now.
No clue, but they did their "whoopsie, didn't know you wouldn't like it, now it's opt in" pretty quickly.
A while back I've read about some allegations that they're illegally collecting data from Azure Ubuntu instances and sending Ubuntu pro marketing material.
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