Bug#961501: remmina is calling home for update notifications
Hi Christoph,
Upstream developer…
I think it's a bit exaggerated to say that is a privacy violation.
We just get a plain text file from https://remmina.org (e.g. https://
remmina.org/news/remmina_news.php?ver=1.4.5) with the new changelog.
Remmina on a regular basis verify if there's a new file or if the file of the
version requested (the PHP parameter) has been changed/updated.
We do this to notify users about new versions, especially when there are
important bugs that have been fixed.
Libreoffice does something similar for instance and other software, in Debian,
as well.
I understand it may be quite annoying and we can add an opt-out option, would
that be enough?
Please consider that for a small project like Remmina is quite important to
keep a channel opened with our users, otherwise we keep receiving and
answering to the same issues again again, because usual people do not do the
effort of searching through our bug tracking system.
We do not track people and the stats is a completely separated system, that is
only opt-in.
So, let's find a solution that makes everybody happy.
Regards
Antenore
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