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This is not the same. Why?

Add a section to remove non-free stuff from Software Center

Although there's not a direct privacy concern, the other problem with Ubuntu / Unity is the presence of ads for non-free stuff in the software center and music apps. Could we at least add links to how to turn those things off? That would make fixubuntu a better full solution and have more long-term relevance too, post-Unity-8

Disable Pollinate

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features#prng-cloud

Pollinate (getting entropy over the network) is NOT a good idea. While we're fixing Ubuntu, we should remove this potential RNG vulnerability.

Refer to this article: http://www.lothar.com/blog/48-remote-entropy/

Script breaks in Ubuntu 14.04

Just got a report about this, but haven't tested it myself.

Do nothing on older versions of Ubuntu

There was a point when Ubuntu didn't violate everyone's privacy by default. If you run this code on an older version (like 12.04) it just throws an error.

I got this feedback from Stu:

by the way, when I run the code, I get the following:
No such schema 'com.canonical.Unity.Lenses'
[sudo] password for stu: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package unity-lens-shopping

I am on 12.04 LTS

What was the first version of Ubuntu that included this stuff by default?

Is this website still necessary?

In the newest release (and probably in the future releases) of Ubuntu, the Amazon dash search is disabled by default.

So, currently, with 15.04 and 15.10 already in their EOL, 14.04 will soon become the only supported Ubuntu version with the Amazon dash search enabled by default.

Which begs the question: is this website still necessary?

Uninstall debs instead of twiddling gsettings?

Disclaimer: I am not an expert in Ubuntu; I am just wondering.

Wouldn't it be better to uninstall the packages completely rather than twiddling the gsettings.

Uninstalling packages would require super user permissions though. If that is a problem, it could be provided as an alternative #2

Please don't instruct users to paste directly into terminal

http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste

To promote good security habits, perhaps suggest visitors to paste commands into a text editor first.

SSL Cert expired on the site

Looks like the SSL Cert on fixubuntu.com has expired.

Add ZeroClipboard support?

http://zeroclipboard.org/

What do you think about this?
I could have a go after my current PR is sorted if you want.

Trademark Violation

Dear Micah,

WTF is happening!

Your site is violating interrectumal property of a company not worth mentioning here, for the safety of your contributors.

What should happen?

Only Barbara Streisand knows it.

How to fix it

In an attempt of humanity towards others, and as was overheard elsewhere on teh Internetz, I suggest that you move your domain name from fix-beeeep.com to something more appropriate, such as spybuntu.info.

Alternately, the company should stop trying to resemble what it's supposed to fight, and follow your own suggestion to opt-in users for a surveillance program rather than violating privacy by default.

P.S.: I don't know of any spirit of open source, but I do know about a philosophy of free software.

14.04 (Trusty Tahr) is not included in the script

There should be:
if awk "BEGIN {exit !($V < 12.10 || $V > 14.04)}"; then
instead of:
if awk "BEGIN {exit !($V < 12.10 || $V >= 14.04)}"; then

provided this information is valid:

"Amazon results are not being removed entirely, and the change is not going to take effect in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS." -- source: www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/ubuntu-make-amazon-product-results-opt-unity

The website is necessary, again

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/ubuntu-data-collection-opt-out states that

The data Ubuntu says it wants to collect about your system sounds rather innocuous. It will include:

Which version of Ubuntu you’re installing (including which flavour)

Whether you have network connectivity

Hardware stats, including CPU, RAM, GPU, etc

Your device vendor (e.g., Dell, Lenovo, etc)

Your country

How long your install took to complete

Whether you have auto login enabled

Your disk layout

Whether you chose to install third party codecs

Whether you chose to download updates during install

Add the Ubuntu logo back in!

Looks like the trademark disagreement was a "mistake."

Suggested tweets

Add a Twitter tool to let people tweet at @ubuntu and @canonical about why they value their privacy. I was thinking maybe it should choose a random tweet out of 5 or so, letting people cycle through them. Tweets can be things like:

Hey @canonical, I switched to @ubuntu because I value my privacy. Please https://fixubuntu.com by default.

Hey @ubuntu, I don't want you to know when I'm searching my local porn collection. Please https://fixubuntu.com by default.

And others in a similar vein. Other ideas?

Redesign site in honor of Ubuntu not needing this fix in 14.04

Online searches will be opt-in starting with 14.04:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/ubuntu-make-amazon-product-results-opt-unity

Which means the code to turn it off will only be neesed for 13.10 and earlier.

Ubuntu 18.04

It seems Bionic is shipping with Gnome as the default desktop env. Will it still need the fix?

Video suggestions still working

After using the fixubuntu.sh script I noticed that the video button in the dash still produced suggestions in 14.04. Some searching around I found that this is handled by the "unity-scope-video-remote" package. This package has been around sinds 12.04 upto 14.10, see:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=unity-scope-video-remote&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all

I fixed this bug by running:

sudo apt-get purge unity-scope-video-remote

Could you fix the "fixubuntu.sh" script to remove the video suggestions!?

Thanks for the great work!

Regards,
Onno

grep -R doesn't automatically search amazon

LULz

Mark custom .htaccess changes

@XhmikosR I didn't realize I needed to mark .htaccess customizations so they don't get overwritten. I looked in .htaccess but don't see instructions for it. Is this a grunt thing that I haven't learned yet? :)

Change background color

Dark black is really bad color for background, except for hacking websites. Please change it.

Thanks.

Replace fixubuntu.sh with graphical instructions

It looks like since Fix Ubuntu launched Ubuntu has ironed out a lot of its obnoxious problems. I want to confirm, but I think that by opening System Settings > Security & Privacy, going to the Search tab and turning off "Include online search results", none of your dash search queries leave your computer.

If this is the case, then I want to redesign the website and replace the script to run with simple instructions for how to turn this off in the GUI.

Fix license mention in README

README says that license is GPLv3 but in fact it is AGPLv3.

modifying /etc/hosts

I'd like to suggest a small modification to the lines modifying /etc/hosts, instead of just:

echo | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts; echo 127.0.0.1 productsearch.ubuntu.com | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

enclose it in an "if", something like:

if
grep -q productsearch.ubuntu.com /etc/hosts
then
echo | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts; echo 127.0.0.1 productsearch.ubuntu.com | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts
fi

so that multiple executions of the same script (e.g. when re-cleaning an installation) do not append multiple lines to the file

Make fixubuntu a package, ship it in a PPA

There are a lot of comments on a specific commit about this: b985f91

I'm making it an issue now to more easily manage. So comment here instead.

./fixubuntu.sh: line 9: [[: 14.04: syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error token is ".04")

Hi,
Nice job.
How can we fix this?

$ ./fixubuntu.sh
./fixubuntu.sh: line 9: [[: 14.04: syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error token is ".04")
./fixubuntu.sh: line 9: [[: 14.04: syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error token is ".04")
All done. Enjoy your privacy.

$ /usr/bin/lsb_release -rs
14.04

$ [ 3 \< 12.10 ] && echo true || echo false
false

You can use awk to compare decimals

if awk "BEGIN {exit !($V < 12.10)}"; then

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