Bug#931728: variety: privacy breach in variety

2019-11-21 Thread James Lu
Control: tags 931728 - patch Control: severity 931728 wishlist Control: retitle 931728 Allow disabling online access features In version 0.7.2-2 I backported a patch adding a privacy policy notice to Variety's first start - hopefully this addresses the transparency part of what data Variety

Bug#931728: variety: privacy breach in variety

2019-07-23 Thread James Lu
Control: tags -1 + help A brief trip upstream reveals that the settings fetching is to (1) rate limit API calls to prevent going over limits (2) provide usage statistics for remote APIs that mandate them. These are sort of tied to the online fetching bits of Variety, so perhaps a solution might

Bug#931728: variety: privacy breach in variety

2019-07-09 Thread James Lu
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/varietywalls/variety/issues/198 Hi Damyan, I've copied this upstream, thanks for spotting this. Best, James On 2019-07-09 9:43 a.m., Damyan Ivanov wrote: > Package: variety > Version: 0.7.1-2 > Severity: important > Tags: upstream > > Hi, > > Thank

Bug#931728: variety: privacy breach in variety

2019-07-09 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Package: variety Version: 0.7.1-2 Severity: important Tags: upstream Hi, Thank you for packaging variety. It is a very nice program and does its work smoothly. Sadly, it contains code which attempts to load "options" from a remove server without user's consent. See [1] and [2]. [1]