Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: popularity-contest
Fortunlately popularity-contest is not that reliable.
There is no need for developers to know what apps are popular with users.
If there is a need, then create a web page for voting, put counters on the
repos!
You either are unaware or refuse to see the relation between
popularity-contest and Microsoft having a piece of spyware on XP that did the
same thing. They got complaints and removed it, no doubt renamed and redirected.
Popularity-contest cannot be removed without uninstalling ubuntu-common.
it is installed by default, and I only found it because it was being updated.
I then read much of what popularity-contest was considered for and NO it
should be removed.
Although popularity-contest is apparently a user enabled 'thing", it is still
potentially spyware if for no other reasons that it is installed by default and
cannot be removed without removal of other things.
If in fact developers needed to know what apps users found and used as the
most important, then, as small as this may seem, gnome-screensaver would never
have been installed in place of xscreensaver and the replies from developers
would not have been " Too bad! We voted on gnome-screensaver and it stays"
By the above fact, concerning gnome-screensaver.. the explanations of
popularity-contest are invalid.
This needs to be removed from ANY default install of ubuntu, and user's choice
to install or not.
Developers and users are EQUAL in the continuation of this distrobution.
Without the users, developers have nothing to do, and without the developers
the users have nothing to use.
Popularity-contest is not only a potentially dangerous addition to ubuntu but
the name implies that it was coined to try to hide it potentials and
similarities to spyware.
** Affects: popularity-contest (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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popularity-contest
https://launchpad.net/bugs/81211
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