Ads?! in Ubuntu? Never! They were simply “integrating online scope results into the home lens of the dash” 🤡
(that is an actual quote from the sentence immediately following “We’re not putting ads in Ubuntu” in Mark Shuttleworth’s blog post responding to the entirely predictable backlash after they did this, twelve years ago…)
Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African and British entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of Canonical, the company behind the development of the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system.[1] In 2002, Shuttleworth became the first South African to travel to space, doing so as a space tourist.[2][3][4] He lives on the Isle of Man and holds dual citizenship from South Africa and the United Kingdom.[5][6] According to the Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, Shuttleworth is worth an estimated £500 million. –Wikipedia
This explains so much.
He the Linux world’s mini elon musk
That was the first time I tried Linux with the free and open thing. I didn’t know much back then and when I saw the ads, I was like… Ooohhh this is ad supported crap. Nope… Not at all
Fucking distro kept me away from my spirit penguin for 2 years before I realized it was ubuntu’s fault.
At least they learned and stopped doing it.The ads are inside the terminal now
Are the ads in the room with us right now?
Edit: I thought it was obvious that this was a joke, my mistake.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/is-x-in-the-room-with-us-right-now
If you have Ubuntu installed in the room, then yes
I don’t. I migrated to Arch in 2011 or 2012 btw. Fuck I feel old.
Yup, that was when I switched off ubuntu to debian
Pepperidge Farm remembers
This shit probably put me off trying out Linux for years.
Hopefully you’ve tried another distro by now, and also know to avoid big corporate distros best you can
Been using Mint for a few years now.
I was digging LMDE until my 8GB of ram simply couldn’t handle the load and I’m in AntiX now. Honestly, I’ve watched Mint go from being immature and insecure to security leaders without losing their accessibility. Solid and incredibly important distro if you ask me
Yeah, me too. I quit X the moment Musk took over.
Same
Canonical would prob do something like this today like how shove snaps
I remember. And how much shit the community flung towards them. And their rep is still stained with it, as it should be.
The ads and the Amazon thing will follow Canonical forever
didn’t they also put ads for ubuntu pro in your .bashrc?
Not ads, actual Amazon search results. The good old times when Big Tech wasn’t so radicalizingly big.
I think they were just doing a bit
“the ads are coming from inside the house”
