On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Ted Gould <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 14:48 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 02:41:35 PM Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: > > > As for the actual change, it is limited to the > > > /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf file; to which the following > > > will be added: > > > > > > [connectivity] > > > uri=http://start.ubuntu.com/connectivity-check.html > > > response=Lorem ipsum > > > > > > See the manual page for NetworkManager.conf(5) for the details of what > > > these settings do. > > > > > > Please let me know if you have questions or think there are good > > > reasons not to enable this feature. If there is no response by the end > > > of the week, I'd like to proceed with a enabling this in Quantal and > > > making sure it gets well tested. > > > > I think that a significant fraction of Ubuntu's user base is > (reasonably) very > > sensitive about privacy issues. While this is no worse the the NTP > check that > > already exists (that is controversial), I don't think it should be > enabled by > > default. > > I think that for those who are concerned, this is trivial to disable. > But, I think what happens for those who are, is that Ubuntu "does the > right thing" by default. If you're at a hotel or other location that > captures for a login page, you won't get your mail and apt and ... all > downloading bogus stuff. > > --Ted > > How exactly do you see this as a privacy issue? It's no different than manually visiting a website every 5 minutes. No PC specific ID has to be sent.
The exact same connectivity check already happens in the installer too. -- Mario Limonciello [email protected]
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