Re: advertisement in packaged software (e.g. Firefox)

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 10:32 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 18:25:48 +0200,
>    Nikos Roussos <comzeradd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 16:58 +0100, H. Guémar wrote:
> >> My *personal* opinion is that we should disable this kind of feature
> >> by default.
> >
> >On a side note, why not disable also Google as the default searchbox
> >engine and replace it with a non-profit one?
> >
> >(I'm not stating my opinion here, just trying to figure which is our
> >overall attitude against promoted default brands on software we deliver
> >to users.)
> 
> I think the difference is that google search isn't used until you actually 
> do a search. So you can not use it fairly easily. Connecting to web pages 
> before you get a chance to disable that feature is a privacy problem unless 
> those web pages are local copies. 

You don't connect to these pages. You just see their logos. I don't know
yet if that would be a local copy or not.

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part

-- 
devel mailing list
devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora Testing]     [Fedora Formulas]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kernel Development]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Desktop]     [PAM]     [Red Hat Development]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]
  Powered by Linux