Hello,

I’ve heard that Ubuntu may not fully prioritize user privacy and collects telemetry data. Could you please clarify:

Is this accurate? Are there Linux distributions that place a stronger emphasis on privacy?

Thank you 🙏🏼

  • oats@piefed.zip
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    5 hours ago

    If windows is 100% nightmare, Ubuntu is like 5 to 10% that. While other distros are 0 to 1 percent.

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      24 minutes ago

      There is one caveat that worth mentioning, one can try (and probably achieve) disable many the privacy invasive treats in Ubuntu getting to the 0 or 1% that other distros provide out of the box where with Windows there isn’t much workaround.

      Honestly, Ubuntu is not even close bad to how many framed here in terms of privacy and can be more secure than Mint that still pushes Cinnamon X11 to users.

      Once you get Snap out and telemetry disabled Ubuntu is in the game.