Canonical Intentionally Ignores Fix For Unity Shopping Lens Bug

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Submission + - Canonical Intentionally Ignores Fix For Unity Shopping Lens Bug (benjaminkerensa.com)

Submitted by TrueSatan on Thursday January 10, 2013 @08:59PM

TrueSatan writes: It seems that there is nothing accidental about the issues the EFF (Electronic Frontiers Foundation) and other have addressed regarding the Unity Shopping Lens present in recent releases of Ubuntu. Despite a gifted developer providing them with a fix for these issues they have continued to both ignore the fix and let the issues continue in place. The relevant bug listing is here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-lens-shopping/+bug/1073114 Canonical are ignoring users protests and those of respected, user privacy protecting, bodies.

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