Comment 2 for bug 298617

It is interesting how that it came to "yes" on my system.

Most popularity-contest directories have been created on my system on 2008-05-01.
In the default file:
/usr/share/popularity-contest/default.conf
it is set to "no",

As I do not recall setting it that way, I assume it has been installed this way.
I think this has been done all in one Ubuntu release, as there is a sharp increase in the date graph at:
http://popcon.ubuntu.com/
Unfortunately, the date scale is unreadable there.
Apparently there are a lot of systems where it came to "yes" on that date.

Again: the issue is that the setting is apparently yes for quite a few people, and that it cannot be configured in the GUI.