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[-] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 43 points 1 year ago

Ubuntu because they put ads in the terminal

[-] cholesterol@lemmy.wtf 7 points 1 year ago

Just thinking about this pisses me off all over again.

[-] cmeerw@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

"they put ads in the terminal" isn't really accurate.

Their "ubuntu-advantage-tools" adds information to one of their other products to the output of apt. You can easily get rid of that by uninstalling/replacing "ubuntu-advantage-tools". It's definitely not like they are selling ad space in your terminal to third parties.

[-] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 6 points 1 year ago

You can’t easily uninstall the advantage tools package, they set Ubuntu-minimal meta package to depend on it

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

They do? I've never seen any.

[-] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

https://nitter.net/omgubuntu/status/1574759306544701443 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/10/ubuntu-pro-terminal-ad The advertised product is literally free under certain conditions so I don't consider this offending.

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