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From: ng0 <ng0 <at> infotropique.org>
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Cc: 28004 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, ng0 <ng0 <at> infotropique.org>, Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Subject: [bug#28004] Chromium
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 05:48:22 +0000

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Marius Bakke transcribed 37K bytes:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > I think we should make sure that our package does not call home in any
> > way.  That’s what I expect from a security- and privacy-conscious
> > distro.
> 
> Currently, it calls home at first launch, prompting for a login.  But
> I've verified that it does not send any unsolicited requests for
> subsequent startups, as long as the user does not change the
> command-line flags.

Could the first launch just be a matter of changing what gets
displayed at first launch? At least that's my current plan
for meissa (my fork of Pale Moon), where the default is to
visit a tracker including homepage.
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