It's very clear to me that Ubuntu is targeting mainstream users. The type of users who don't consider where their "search data" is going. They just see that instead of going to Google, they can click the Ubuntu dash and search from there for anything - files, music, products, or just vanilla web searches.
What Ubuntu is doing here will certainly piss off hackers, but mainstream users? It's probably not going to bother them much. They might even find it convenient.
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But surely you accept that you're the minority?
It's very clear to me that Ubuntu is targeting mainstream users. The type of users who don't consider where their "search data" is going. They just see that instead of going to Google, they can click the Ubuntu dash and search from there for anything - files, music, products, or just vanilla web searches.
What Ubuntu is doing here will certainly piss off hackers, but mainstream users? It's probably not going to bother them much. They might even find it convenient.