I think this is extra worse than normal bundling, because its a friggin platform! A basis for applications, it smells as bad as Microsoft asking to install a toolbar during the OS install.
Seriously, how worse stuff can get?
I imagine a future.
A bright future.
A future where everyone sees data, with Google Glasses like technology and beyond.
And thus, where they have ads in front of them all the time, you arrive home, look at your daughter in the crib, and suddenly your entire vision is plastered with a semi-transparent ad for diapers, and you blink, it goes away, and another shows up, a ad for automatic cribs with quad core processor and capable of singing and telling stories on its own.
Seriously, Canonical is a company, and they have to pay their bills like the rest of us. The Amazon search isn't "spyware," it's nothing but an additional search lens, and you can turn it off.
[1] http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/microsoft-cheapens-windows...
So this is way different than having a couple of banner ads showing up inside the app only when the app is running and you can uninstall the app in five seconds.
You enter an app who's purpose is to allow you to purchase videos or music, and then complain that there are ads there?