On 03-08-15 10:23, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: > Given the following plan, does that guarantee enough privacy for people > who were against it earlier: > > - during first creation of .qgis2 user folder (upon first installation) > we generate some uuid (based on currentime+somerandom) > - upon later startups QGIS fires a HTTP GET request to a webserver which > contains this UUID + the language + current version used > - this request is handled by a separate apache or nginx server which > does nothing more then logging this, and returning the (for that branch) > latest version. Which is checked for by QGIS > - by simple analysing the logs (grepping) we can have some info about > our user-base (number of installs given a period of time) and even a > live 'currently QGISsing'-guess :-) > > Can privacy concerning people live with this plan?
First, an HTTP POST request seems more appropriate. Please make this feature easy to disable in the build, we get quite a number of bugreports in Debian about software that phones home, having an easy option to disable it very helpful in that respect. KInd Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1 _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
