The pre-release version of Ubuntu 12.10 has already sparked a wave of protest with the addition of a new Amazon shopping lens that blends local search results with Amazon product recommendations. Users complain that local searches would get reported to Amazon, but Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth said the results will not even be monetized by Canonical. Shuttleworth also said these results are not pulled directly from Amazon but rather proxied and filtered by the Canonical servers, so Amazon cannot identify and associate searches with users, for instance.”]