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Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el? |
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Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:27:19 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>>> I never liked it, but admittedly, I never complained about it.
>>> May I ask why you do not like this behaviour? What stands against it?
>> That's just a leak of private information.
> I must admit that I find it hard to agree. I do not see how the OS,
> or the Emacs version, or the combination of both could be used to
> identify you as a person.
Your medical records are considered private information, not because
they would allow someone to identify you, but because they say things
about you which not everyone should know.
> And even if it could, doesn't it pale beside the information that is
> necessarily send to the archive (e.g. your IP, a partial list of the
> packages you're using, etc.)?
AFAIK we don't send a partial list of the packages we're using.
> I think that our desire as package maintainers to learn how and where
> their packages are used is legitimate.
Of course. But being legitimate doesn't trump other concerns. It has
to be weighed against the consequences.
Stefan
Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2016/03/24
Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/03/24
Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/03/24
Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, Steve Purcell, 2016/03/24