mibbitier

The point is that you can work as many hours as you choose.

I very much doubt they make 5 bucks a month per user. Maybe 5c.

Am I the only one that finds appeals to donate actually more irritating that adverts?

FWIW, It's better to stick to the facts rather than spreading even more FUD - "sell it's users searches to amazon"

Ubuntu is not "selling" your searches to amazon. Ubuntu will only get paid any money if you click through, and purchase something from Amazon. Ubuntu is sending your searches to Amazon which may or may not be 'right', but they only get paid if you buy stuff.

I'd guess Ubuntu are desperate for revenue and have run out of other ideas.

Also FWIW, the number of people who use these desktop search things seems likely to be tiny. Particularly amongst those who use linux.

Do people here use desktop search on any OS?

Outside hospital workers, you'd be hard pressed to find many in the UK that even know what a pager is, let alone someone who has one.

A simple nokia from 10 years ago or so will run for a week on a charge. It's only modern phones with massive screens, GPS, etc that eat battery.

They also use pagers. Crazy.

It's surprising your comment hasn't been down-voted to oblivion. It's so factually incorrect.

No, because most cellphones/iPods etc will be subject to scammers.

These devices are absolutely simple for scammers to work with. They're high value, cheap to post, and can easily be swapped with phoney/broken identical devices.

One bad incident out of millions doesn't set a precedent.

Odd. I'm using google DNS, so maybe they're "blocking" it via dns.

> " If youre thinking of selling an expensive item on eBay, think again. "

I would say, this type of fraud is exclusively targeted at cellphones, ipods, netbooks etc. If you're selling something like an antique grandfather clock, you should be fine. Of course anything that requires collection, or couriering is going to be more traceable and secure.

I have sold hundreds or maybe thousands of items on eBay. The only one I ever had a problem with was trying to sell an old iPod. As soon as it was listed the scamming started by fraudsters.

FWIW, I'm on BT and it's not blocked here.

I expect us (UK) to withdraw from the EU in the next few years, so hopefully it'll become irrelevant.