Canonical being silly again - Can this not be in Kubuntu, please?

[Rod J]

Well, I personally don't have a problem with this. If the data is used for the stated purpose it's OK by me.

[claydoh]

Is this any different from what Mozilla does on firefox?

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[MoonRise]

Exactly what M$ does. Not surprising to me any more.

[TWPonKubuntu]

This sends shivers down my spine. NOT a good precedent and far too easy to expand to include other data... Data which might be used to identify each individual user.

If it can be stripped from each distro, before it is allowed to enter the repositories, it is a step in the right direction.

I see a market for a tool which searches for and removes the code. We already have malware snoopers, add another profile to find and extract this from a system.

Keep on eye on this...

[Bings]

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/u...ection-opt-out

Canonical chose today, the international day of romance and overpriced heart-shaped key-rings, to tell the Ubuntu community of its plans to include a data collection tool in the Ubuntu 18.04 installer.
This feature will compile a stack of salient information about system hardware and then send it back to Canonical.

I know you can opt out etc but normalising this stuff is just thin end of the wedge. Are Canonical going to decide they want even more information next time? They really should have got the message with the amazon search debacle. I don't know how similar Kubuntu and Ubuntu's installers are but I though in case it's relevant, I'd make a suggestion for this not to be in it.