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Re: Is Canonical tracking me through the DuckDuckGo search engine? - Valtam - 03-16-2015 When Firefox next updates, you may have to go through the editing process again. Theres other ways around this: 1) We could start packaging Firefox and distributing it raw, untouched via the LL repos. Unlikely to happen anytime soon, FF is a big project and just takes to much time to track. At the moment our focus is on our own software. 2) Download a raw copy of FF, throw it in your /home/user dir and make a shortcut to it. Re: Is Canonical tracking me through the DuckDuckGo search engine? - Zead - 03-16-2015 (03-16-2015, 03:11 AM)altman link Wrote: Guess I would have a look at this link , might look a little bit paranoid , but it s some interesting readings : https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux/Have this website in favorites for a long time now... Re: Is Canonical tracking me through the DuckDuckGo search engine? - altman - 03-16-2015 I like this site too . In Bookmarks also . Re: Is Canonical tracking me through the DuckDuckGo search engine? - anon222 - 03-16-2015 Package xul-ext-ubufox is for "Ubuntu-specific configuration defaults" Code: apt-cache show xul-ext-ubufox Code: sudo apt-get remove xul-ext-ubufox It looks like Firefox uses two files to colect statistits for Canonical. I've removed them and added a seach engine from Mozilla website. This is my idea on how to deal with this. Ctrl+Alt+T then run Code: rm $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/searchplugins/duckduckgo.xml Code: sudo find /usr/lib/firefox/distribution/searchplugins/locale -name "duckduckgo.xml" -type f -exec rm {} \; After removing duckduckgo.xml from all the locations I've visited next url and added duckduckgo https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?atype=4 This will stick untill the first update. And then you need to remove duckduckgo.xml from /usr/lib/firefox/distribution/searchplugins/locale/*/ If you remove it, Firefox will use the one in /home/username/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/searchplugins/duckduckgo.xml Might be easier to save it as a script so you could run it with a mouse click. Open the text editor paste next in it Code: #! /bin/bash Next time firefox is updated just run the script. Re: Is Canonical tracking me through the DuckDuckGo search engine? - Zead - 03-17-2015 (03-16-2015, 11:22 PM)misko_2083 link Wrote: It looks like Firefox uses two files to colect statistits for Canonical. I've removed them and added a seach engine from Mozilla website.Canonical and their tracking. -_- Thanks. Anyway, I wanted to ask something (so I don't create a new thread for a simple question). Is there any way to get notified about updates without installing Ubuntu software center? I know it's not recommended to install from its updater. Also AppArmor GUI / tool would be nice in the future, but not priority though. I still don't know if to use SElinux, Apparmor, or other. Re: Is Canonical tracking me through the DuckDuckGo search engine? - anon222 - 03-18-2015 In the future please make a new thread, we don't want to confuse the other people. I've been "spanked" ![]() Is there any way to get notified about updates without installing Ubuntu software center? Currently there is no such method. It is recommended to use the default updater in LL. I haven't come across a GUI for the AppArmor. To tell you the truth I've never needed it. ![]() |