> The number of people switching to BSD because of this is exactly 0.
Perhaps. There is at least one person who is now less likely to use Ubuntu after learning this: me. I have typically used a mix of Debian and Ubuntu for both desktop VMs and servers; now I am more likely to use Debian, which takes a significantly stronger privacy stance.
I am commenting from an iPhone though. Safari is not Google funded and does not track every click, but I do believe that Apple is getting the kind of OS version stats that Ubuntu’s motd script sends. Relatively tame for commercial software, honestly, but Linux is a different story.
Perhaps. There is at least one person who is now less likely to use Ubuntu after learning this: me. I have typically used a mix of Debian and Ubuntu for both desktop VMs and servers; now I am more likely to use Debian, which takes a significantly stronger privacy stance.
I am commenting from an iPhone though. Safari is not Google funded and does not track every click, but I do believe that Apple is getting the kind of OS version stats that Ubuntu’s motd script sends. Relatively tame for commercial software, honestly, but Linux is a different story.