Comment 3 for bug 405350
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| Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml) wrote Re: Please make it clear that the default search is a custom search | #3 |
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Mattew: bug #305905 is about the different results, so if the results could be made identical to the standard google ones, that bug would be solved.
This one is about the users not being informed on what search are they making and who is their data sent to, and who is making money out of that.
In particular, making money is a debatable subject: this can not happen without showing advertising. Noticing more prominent and frequent ads is actually what led me to discover the fact that the search is not the standard one. On the other hand, if it is by making an informed choice, I don't have problems in making ubuntu earn cash when I search the web.
But I want to be sure about what data is tracked (e.g. could you make that public?), if I am anonymous, if my launchpad cookie can be associated to queries,if my search results are altered, and if users I advice ubuntu to, are informed and not tricked into the system.