Thanks for those links. I don't totally understand the details of this one
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=761658but sending any sort of data to Google without informing the user does seem troubling. I hope such behavior isn't something that will end up in a libre distro. If Debian doesn't address it (which sounds unlikely) and it isn't addressed in Ubuntu (probably not likely either) is it something that could be fixed in Flidas?
