Hi Frederik,
I agree with you. We plan to switch back to solely JOSM server through
https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/18599
Cheers,
Vincent

Le ven. 14 févr. 2020 à 13:51, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> upon starting JOSM I was greeted by, among other things, messages that
> loaded content from "wikidata.org" and "sophox.org".
>
> I have not actively enabled something that would make these queries, nor
> have I been asked for my consent to transmit the fact that someone is
> using JOSM at this IP number to wikidata.org or sophox.org.
>
> I can understand that if I load Ilya's geochat plugin it will phone home
> to Ilya's server, or if I enable certain imagery layers they will load
> data from the imagery server. Also it is clear that JOSM will access the
> OSM and JOSM servers. But I think that we should not add random third
> party web sites that are under control of neither OSMF nor the JOSM team
> to the mix without explaining this to the user and asking for their
> consent.
>
> Would it perhaps make sense to build a generic "consent to access server
> X" feature into the JOSM core, and anyone - whether core or plugin -
> would then have to acquire user consent once before accessing a remote
> resource?
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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