IMO it is not Wicket's business to try to disable it.

Martin Grigorov
Wicket Training and Consulting
https://twitter.com/mtgrigorov

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Emond Papegaaij <emond.papega...@topicus.nl>
wrote:

> The problem is that this 'feature' can only be disabled via an init-param.
> We
> could check the parameter and refuse to start, but we can't disable this
> from
> Wicket code.
>
> Emond
>
> On Friday 03 October 2014 13:54:26 Martin Grigorov wrote:
> > Atmosphere does this since its very early versions...
> > I personally don't care because I don't use (Wicket-)Atmosphere. There
> are
> > several technical things I don't like in Atmo.
> >
> > Last time I tried to upgrade Wicket-Atmo from 2.1.8 to 2.2.x it stopped
> > working for some reason. And I didn't have time to debug it. So it stays
> at
> > 2.1.8.
> > I'm sure Emond will upgrade it to the version with the setting to
> suppress
> > "phone home" without any sweat :-)
> >
> > Martin Grigorov
> > Wicket Training and Consulting
> > https://twitter.com/mtgrigorov
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Martijn Dashorst <
> martijn.dasho...@gmail.com
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > My first reaction was to remove the module from our project, but that
> > > would leave everybody currently using it stranded on the E.T. [1]
> > > version. I think we should at least release a version that disables
> > > the server side callbacks by default (providing an option to enable
> > > them) and go from there.
> > >
> > > I am certain Jeanfrancois Arcand doesn't have nefarious motives but
> > > frameworks should not phone anywhere without explicit approval.
> > >
> > > Anybody have other thoughts on the future of wicket-atmosphere?
> > >
> > > Martijn
> > >
> > >
> > > [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyFijjikkeM
> > >
> > > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Martijn Dashorst
> > >
> > > <martijn.dasho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Due to functionality that tracks atmosphere-framework usage you might
> > > > be in violation of EU tracking laws.
> > > >
> > > > Apparently Atmosphere opens an undocumented server-side connection to
> > > > Google Analytics to track Atmosphere usage. At this stage it is
> > > > unclear what can be tracked by Google from this connection, but
> > > > suffice to say this is troubling.
> > > >
> > > > Atmosphere's maintainer doesn't see any problem with this phone home
> > > > behavior ("it is sent to Google Analytics, not Google") [1] but has
> > > > implemented a feature to disable this [2]
> > > >
> > > > At this moment we can't recommend people using wicket-atmosphere in
> > > > production systems until we have updated the atmosphere library and
> > > > disabled the phone home tracker.
> > > >
> > > > Emond & Martijn
> > > >
> > > > [1]
> > >
> > >
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/atmosphere-framework/RIkB689kExI
> > >
> > > > [2]
> > >
> > >
> https://github.com/Atmosphere/atmosphere/commit/97993855734903536b046a41b1
> > > dbbe3f3558d463
> > >
> > >
> > >
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