Ubuntu Spyware: What to do?

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mama21mama

Ubuntu Spyware: What to do?

#1 Post by mama21mama »

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Not basing the puplet to ubuntu, is the best way.
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bill
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Ubuntu Spyware: What to do?

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While reading statements and questions about “Security

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#3 Post by mama21mama »

did you read what he said the fsf?, please read the url that passes.

The idea is to desprenderce of :twisted: ubuntu :twisted: ; use another base like debian in future releases of puppy (deb in)

I think that continue to use :twisted: ubuntu :twisted: is to have paid the right to go to hell and not to heaven.
es: creo que seguir usando :twisted: ubuntu :twisted: es tener pagado el derecho de ir al infierno y no al cielo.

benali72
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Ubuntu Spyware: What to do? ==> go to Mint

#4 Post by benali72 »

Go to Mint. It's Ubuntu compatible in almost every way imaginable, except that it doesn't have the spyware.

Also Mint ditches the goofy Unity interface and gives you good options, such as Mate, a fork of Gnome 2, KDE, Xfce, and Cinamon, a continuation of Gnome 3.

Been using Mint 13 for half a year as my secondary system to Puppy and I'm very happy with it as an Ubuntu replacement.

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#5 Post by disciple »

Cinnamon, a continuation of Gnome 3
I think "fork" is the right word, again. They decided the user interface in Gnome 3 is rubbish so they forked it and made it more "traditional".
Do you know a good gtkdialog program? Please post a link here

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#6 Post by gameboyab »

The spyware is in the search feature in the Unity desktop environment, when a search is made, it sends the search to a remote server to send ads.

I don't use Ubuntu for this reason, also, it is too slow on my computers.
As long as Unity isn't included, the Puppy should be clean.

I'm not sure if Lucid Puppy just has package compatibility, or if it is based on Ubuntu. (On puppylinux.org, the download page says that Lucid is an Ubuntu compatible build.)
Not running as root is the cause of my inferiority complex.

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