We see horror and mystery stories everywhere. Reading my RSS feeds, I learned that Canonical is using the copyright on its logo to censor criticism of Ubuntu , something that has never happened before.
The story is as follows: Micah Lee , owner of the Fix Ubuntu website , published code to remove online searches included in the new version of Unity, which many claim violates their privacy.
What's the problem? Well, Micah Lee used the Ubuntu name and logo for his website, something that, as many know, thousands of sites and blogs do.
But since Fix Ubuntu 's objective is to remove a feature from Unity that generates profits for Canonical, they have prohibited it from using the logo, and even the word/name Ubuntu.
Micah has already removed the logo, but is keeping the name, as explained here.
What do you think? For my part, I give Mr. Micah my +1000 for sharing and wanting to protect our privacy and Canonical, because he takes -1.
Script Execution
Basically all we have to do is open a terminal and run:
gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Lenses remote-content-search none; if [`cat / etc / lsb-release | grep DISTRIB_RELEASE | cut -d "=" -f2` \ <'13.10 .1 ']; then sudo apt-get remove -y unity-lens-shopping; else gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Lenses disabled-scopes "['more_suggestions-amazon.scope', 'more_suggestions-u127.0.0.1ms.scope', 'more_suggestions-populartracks.scope', 'music-musicstore.scope', 'more_suggestions- ebay.scope ',' more_suggestions-ubuntushop.scope ',' more_suggestions-skimlinks.scope '] "; fi; sudo sh -c 'echo "XNUMX productsearch.ubuntu.com" >> / etc / hosts';
What does this do? |
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gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Lenses remote-content-search none |
It deactivates «Remote searches», that is, the searches do not need the Internet |
gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Lenses disabled-scopes "['more_suggestions-amazon.scope', 'more_suggestions-u1ms.scope', 'more_suggestions-populartracks.scope', 'music-musicstore.scope', 'more_suggestions-ebay.scope', 'more_suggestions-ubuntushop.scope', 'more_suggestions-skimlinks.scope']" |
Disable other Dash lenses that also access the Internet |
sudo apt-get remove -y unity-lens-shopping |
Uninstall the Amazon lens |
sudo sh -c 'echo "127.0.0.1 productsearch.ubuntu.com" >> /etc/hosts' |
Block connections to Ubuntu ad servers, just in case |