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Os Talk / Re: Bloatware on Ubuntu.
« Last post by hvysmker on February 02, 2016, 09:28:07 PM »Thanks for the info.
I have disabled everything I've found of that nature, but wonder if there's anything I've missed, now or will in the future.
I simply like my privacy and hate the idea that someone else can find where I've been on the internet and what files I've used in the past. I don't like the idea of logging off every time I use the restroom or eat a meal to keep inquisitive kids from my computer, or that anyone and their brothers can get in over my modem to search. It's better if the information isn't there to find.
I use Ubuntu, which is becoming bloatware. There's a recent addition called zeitgeist that tracks everything, constantly updating it's index and taking major resources to do ... to help in searching I never have occasion to do. And there are the others, such as smplayer and music players indexing past use. With all those turned off, I've noticed quite an improvement in speed. I have no use for "recent documents" or "recent applications." Sure, I'm an old man and single.
I often view porn and would rather that use is not available to the rest of the family. If it were, all the computers in my home would be inundated with advertising. Malware built into downloads from porno sites could easily track my use and send that advertising. Not a major issue, but one I'd like to avoid.
Easier to do without that darned Zeitgeist keeping an ongoing "Journal" of all my activities. The privacy issue didn't much interest me up until I found that "Journal" and now it's become somewhat of an obsession. That program tracks EVERYTHING, and takes a lot of resources to do it, or did before I disabled it. Doing so crippled the original desktop by deleting "Unity". No big thing since I use the Xfce desktop, which is considerably faster.
Charlie
I have disabled everything I've found of that nature, but wonder if there's anything I've missed, now or will in the future.
I simply like my privacy and hate the idea that someone else can find where I've been on the internet and what files I've used in the past. I don't like the idea of logging off every time I use the restroom or eat a meal to keep inquisitive kids from my computer, or that anyone and their brothers can get in over my modem to search. It's better if the information isn't there to find.
I use Ubuntu, which is becoming bloatware. There's a recent addition called zeitgeist that tracks everything, constantly updating it's index and taking major resources to do ... to help in searching I never have occasion to do. And there are the others, such as smplayer and music players indexing past use. With all those turned off, I've noticed quite an improvement in speed. I have no use for "recent documents" or "recent applications." Sure, I'm an old man and single.
I often view porn and would rather that use is not available to the rest of the family. If it were, all the computers in my home would be inundated with advertising. Malware built into downloads from porno sites could easily track my use and send that advertising. Not a major issue, but one I'd like to avoid.
Easier to do without that darned Zeitgeist keeping an ongoing "Journal" of all my activities. The privacy issue didn't much interest me up until I found that "Journal" and now it's become somewhat of an obsession. That program tracks EVERYTHING, and takes a lot of resources to do it, or did before I disabled it. Doing so crippled the original desktop by deleting "Unity". No big thing since I use the Xfce desktop, which is considerably faster.
Charlie