advertisement in packaged software (e.g. Firefox)

[Nikos Roussos]

On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 10:32 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 18:25:48 +0200,
>    Nikos Roussos <comzeradd at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 16:58 +0100, H. Guémar wrote:
> >> My *personal* opinion is that we should disable this kind of feature
> >> by default.
> >
> >On a side note, why not disable also Google as the default searchbox
> >engine and replace it with a non-profit one?
> >
> >(I'm not stating my opinion here, just trying to figure which is our
> >overall attitude against promoted default brands on software we deliver
> >to users.)
> 
> I think the difference is that google search isn't used until you actually 
> do a search. So you can not use it fairly easily. Connecting to web pages 
> before you get a chance to disable that feature is a privacy problem unless 
> those web pages are local copies. 

You don't connect to these pages. You just see their logos. I don't know
yet if that would be a local copy or not.

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