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At first when I saw statements like "ad widgets would not be user removable or customizable" I could not come to terms with one of the community profiting from using community developed FOSS as a billboard to sell products to others in the very same community.
Granted that one member may be responsible for creating the community in the first place.

Then I realized (while daydreaming during a work related meeting) that none of this has been verified yet. Even if it was all true and the intent is to distribute software to more people and and as a result promote safe systems that I feel comfortable using, why not?

After all, isn't that what Google did? ...and everyone knows that their ad content is not user removable or their web apps customizable.

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Still, I wish I found out via Nokia first. Perhaps these "leaks" should be made through this forum somehow.