[Flolagale]

I think you might rather donate to Debian, the distribution Ubuntu is based on. As far as I know, Ubuntu (and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu) does not commit a lot for upstream problems, so I do not know if it will be very efficient donating to them for this particular issue. By the way, I might encourage you to read this: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do

[joss82]

Yes, I've read it, and it resonated quite strongly with my recently deteriorating ubuntu experience. The thing is, I don't feel like spending hours of system tuning on Debian like I used to do. Maybe I should give debian or gentoo another try and check if they fixed the problems they use to have. But this also takes time away from the funnier stuff like programming and creation.