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There “ads” and then there’s “ADS”. Ubuntu might show a bit of text in the ssh motd promoting their own services, but it’s very unobtrusive compared to the ads on other platforms.

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It was not just their own services, mate. It showed Amazon ads, too.

https://www.thefastcode.com/en-idr/article/how-to-disable-th... (How To Disable the Amazon Search Ads in Ubuntu's Unity Dash)

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/10asnf/ubuntu_will_n...

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/10hmmb/ubuntu_privac...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-am...

So yeah, no. To all the down-voters, they were actual ads, and they actually were in Ubuntu. Sorry.

Ah I forgot about that Amazon ad since it was over 10 years ago.

To be fair this was 10 years ago and they have reversed course for a long time. Windows has ads now.

They may have reversed it, but they put it there in the first place. Who is to say they will not do it again? Do you know of any other distributions that have done the same?

And yeah, Windows is awful, too.

Microsoft might decide, at any point, to take all of the ads out of windows, too. Is my comment correct? Technically, yes. Is it relevant? No.

Sure, but back when Ubuntu had ads, you could have said the same about Ubuntu.

My point is that the statement that Ubuntu is without ads is not accurate. They already put ads into Ubuntu, and if currently there are no ads, there might be in the future, because now we know that they do not have an issue doing so.

I get your point, it’s just not relevant

10 years is an eternity in tech-related management.

Genuinely, are the folks who advocated and pushed for the Amazon tie-in even still working for Canonical?

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