> Hi, the Debian social contract should mandate to warn users of internet tracking by debian packages like chromium. The social contract isn't easy to change, but it isn't normally necessary to do so. > I tried everything and I can't turn off some internet tracking features of chromium like gcm which connects to google servers several times per hour. > > Anyway, there should be a mandatory warning that this package default configuration tracks you in many ways, and an even stronger warning if you can't configure it to not track you. That would be a good idea, provided that there weren't so many privacy problems that the average user would just get annoyed with all of the warnings. Another problem would be defining For what it's worth, Debian has taken some measures to protect privacy already. If you look at the below website and search for privacy-breach, then you can see the list of privacy tags: https://lintian.debian.org/tags-all.html Chromium doesn't appear to have been caught by lintian. It can't hurt to file a bug report requesting a privacy notice, though.
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