https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515145
John <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #2 from John <[email protected]> --- (In reply to David Redondo from comment #1) > You can configure a manual location so why should we hide those pages. I'm not sure that the OP asks to hide those pages. As far as I understand what he wants and based on my personal opinions: 1. For users that are very conscious and informed about dangers pertaining their personal privacy and security, which might have also taken measures to protect them like: - Masking (completely disabling) systemd services - Holding some updates - Using FireJail | BubleWrap sandboxing tools - Using OpenSnitch application firewall To block services, tools, scripts / components, programs from sending information! KDE developers should at least explain how is it possible that KDE Programs like Plasma or other components still work fine! It's a transparency thing. As we cannot have the best privacy and security without knowing all the things that send data from our computers so we are first aware of them and we also know what to block, in case we reach that decision. As a user of OpenSnitch on Plasma, I'm honestly very appalled and disappointed seeing how many KDE-related components want to get past the firewall without explaining what they actually want to do (getting some info, sending some info or both) and for what purpose! And that's after multiple requests of making that potentially-spyware (telemetry) tool optional and uninstallable module, that you still refuse to do. But this will not end well for you as in the future I will write to our EU representatives to make a law about spyware being installed by default, like in your case and not be able to uninstall it completely, like in your case. Hopefully with the shift from the US-based products and services which are full of spyware, we can have these kind of laws for organizations that refuse to properly inform users about everything they do and to make questionable components optional and uninstallable and blockable, when they are nicely asked. It's your choice if you want to do the necessary steps for us to have the best privacy and security, which are: - Make things that send data from our computers as separate modules, that can be unistalled or blocked by masking, FireJail, BubleWrap, OpenSnitch - Respect those masking / blocking decisions if that's what we have taken. - Inform us why those components need to use these modules to send data, what data is sent and for what purpose. Even today I had to block the Mekuro calendar (which I didn't expect to have internet access) from trying access some page, which was a blog of one of your developers! (as I copied the URL in my web browser to see WTF it wants access to) Luckily OpenSnitch caught it and informed me about it and then asked for my permission, which I denied as I saw no point of my personal calendar sending data or needing more data from some web page! So, shame on whoever though that is a good idea to send or get data behind our back from various pages without any transparency! And congrats and many thanks to the OpenSnitch developer for both informing us what is going on and asking for our consent! While I like the KDE organization a lot and I fully support it, my privacy and security is more important than anything and I hate that this organization doesn't treat it at the same level both in transparency / informing me about what is going on and grouping components that send or receive data from outside in specific services or tools that we can block or uninstall, in case we know we don't need them at all. Krunner is also one of the components that contacts some ECB page, which I blocked as I don't need its conversion and I didn't like the idea of not being informed and asked for consent. BTW, this also keeps nagging me a lot (every time I start it) with GeoClue location requests, which I cannot choose NEVER: https://flathub.org/en/apps/app.organicmaps.desktop Please fix it on your side as who knows when they will fix it and other programs and games might do the same in the future! Thanks! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
