Re: social contract should mandate to warn users of tracking by packages like chromium

2015-06-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
As others have suggested you should file a bug report. The Chromium maintainers do appear to take privacy seriously and have made several privacy-oriented changes already (see e.g. this bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=783999) If you need to find out how to file a bug, please

Re: social contract should mandate to warn users of tracking by packages like chromium

2015-06-15 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 05:47:06PM +0200, pm...@laposte.net wrote: > Hi, the Debian social contract should mandate to warn users of internet > tracking by debian packages like chromium. I do agree that this should be filed as a bug. Please come back

Re: social contract should mandate to warn users of tracking by packages like chromium

2015-06-14 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 14 Jun 2015, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Sun, 2015-06-14 at 17:47 +0200, pm...@laposte.net wrote: debian-user is probably not the right place for this. The linux-elitists list is very involved with these issues, and the list archives are open to public examination: http://zgp.org/m

Re: social contract should mandate to warn users of tracking by packages like chromium

2015-06-14 Thread Riley Baird
> Hi, the Debian social contract should mandate to warn users of internet > tracking by debian packages like chromium. The social contract isn't easy to change, but it isn't normally necessary to do so. > I tried everything and I can't turn off some internet tracking features of > chromium like

Re: social contract should mandate to warn users of tracking by packages like chromium

2015-06-14 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2015-06-14 at 17:47 +0200, pm...@laposte.net wrote: > Hi, the Debian social contract should mandate to warn users of > internet tracking by debian packages like chromium. > > I tried everything and I can't turn off some internet tracking > features of chromium like gcm which connects to

social contract should mandate to warn users of tracking by packages like chromium

2015-06-14 Thread pm190
Hi, the Debian social contract should mandate to warn users of internet tracking by debian packages like chromium. I tried everything and I can't turn off some internet tracking features of chromium like gcm which connects to google servers several times per hour. Anyway, there should be a mand