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iPhone & iPad Tracking

You may get tracked by freshly installed Ubuntu 12.04 ?

2012-05-06

Video Lens seraches for videos online by using keywords

Looking at the transparent HTTP Proxy logs I found these entries several times:

1336327183.519    266 192.168.1.109 TCP_REFRESH_HIT/200 714 GET http://videosearch.ubuntu.com/v0/sources - DIRECT/91.189.89.22 application/json
1336327183.601    345 192.168.1.109 TCP_MISS/200 8209 GET http://videosearch.ubuntu.com/v0/search - DIRECT/91.189.89.22 application/json

But i didn't searched for a video... You can get rid off it by deleting the remote video lens

sudo apt-get remove unity-scope-video-remote

Ubuntu Geoip Lookup

Looking at the transparent HTTP Proxy logs I found these entries several times:

1336295117.216    173 192.168.1.109 TCP_MISS/200 656 GET http://geoip.ubuntu.com/lookup - DIRECT/91.189.89.144 text/xml

This is used by the installer to guess the contry settings.
After install, this should not be needed anymore, but is still appearing in the proxy logs.
The packages which uses this HTTP Request is geoclue-ubuntu-geoip. So you may try to remove the package:

apt-get remove geoclue-ubuntu-geoip

But then you will not have the time display in the top right corner anymore, because indicator-datetime is based on geoclue.
My solution: Adding a localhost entry in /etc/hosts

127.0.1.1	geoip.ubuntu.com