just a little mini-rant to make it clear to everyone that geoclue is about 1% of the perceived problem - pacman shows this relatively small number of clients:
empathy gnome-clocks gnome-initial-setup gnome-maps gnome-settings-daemon gnome-weather pantheon-calendar qreator redshift viking xdg-desktop-portal FWIW, geoclue is just the favored freedesktop abstraction and is adopted mainly by gnome, as it pretty clear from that dependents list - there are countless goelocation services though, that require nothing but a generic HTTP client; and surely the majority of applications that have such a feature use a leaner zero-dependency method - the calamares implementation for example, is basically as simple as this: $ curl https://geoip.kde.org/v1/ubiquity to address the situation fundamentally, the only real solution is to educate people on how to observe their network traffic, steps to resolves each IP to some identifiable service, and steps to block requests to unidentified IPs - the dowse tool from dyne.org is intended to simplify that - i havent tried it myself; but i expect it begins with extremely limited internet access, until one learns to manage the whitelist/blacklist, or however it works - of course, like freedom-box, even such well-intentioned, semi-user-friendly tools have the typical adoption problem of convincing people to hack their router, and/or operate their own services surely. none of that was particularly enlightening to freemor - i just wanted to put it out there for the sake of full disclosure - theres only so much that a distro can reasonably do on behalf of its users - beyond that, folks who want more computing freedom and privacy will need to take their machines into their own hands, to some non-trivial degree _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
