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.
makmarian@kbin.social to 
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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