[snip] Ubuntu Spyware

Kathinka <[email protected]>
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Drat, forgot to alter To  in Gmail.

On 29 January 2013 10:08, Thomi Richards <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 29 January 2013 09:57, Robin Sheat <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> From memory, but it's along the lines of:
>> System Settings -> Privacy -> Disable online searches.
>
>
> Close enough.
>
>
> System Settings -> Privacy ->
>
> set "include online search results" to "off".
>
> Note that scopes can choose to be naughty and not honour this flag. The
> official ones all do, but if you have third party scopes installed there's
> no telling what they're doing.
>
> However, that's the same for any software you have installed, so...
>



Eh?!  Thanks guys.  I thought that meant not being able to use search
at all, wondered why anyone would want it but perhaps it was, um, to
stop kids browsing  internet instead of getting on with set work, like
having a "paranoid-safe search" setting in Google.

Kathinka.
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