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I just read the entire privacy policy and not only is the entirety completely reasonable and barely worth mentioning, the “phone home” section is just this: “ I
by ianlevesque 5y ago
I just read the entire privacy policy and not only is the entirety completely reasonable and barely worth mentioning, the “phone home” section is just this: “ If you download and use a ready-to-run version of Ardour from ardour.org, the program will attempt to contact ardour.org at startup to determine if you should be notified about a new release of the software. If the computer where you use Ardour is connected to the internet, this process will store the computer's internet address and an identifier for its operating system.” So it’s barely an http access log for whatever endpoint that is. The privacy policy hysteria has gone wayyyyyy too far.
- noobermin 5y agoThe thing is at least from what I can gather, the Audacity issue is literally on the same level of this. The only added difference is optional bug reporting.
- danudey 5y agoOptional, opt-in error reporting and telemetry, yes. This entire issue is a bunch of people freaking out over nothing and making baseless assertions about things that aren't happening.
- anotherevan 5y ago> the program will attempt to contact ardour.org at startup to determine if you should be notified about a new release of the software I remember one developer who actually used a DNS TXT record to store the latest version, which I always thought was an interesting idea.
- ianlevesque 5y agoStore update information in place that is unencrypted and unauthenticated most of the time? What could go wrong?
- lights0123 5y agoThe worst that could happen is that someone isn't informed about a newer version, or the software attempts to download a newer version and receives a 404 instead. They're storing numbers, not URLs.
- swiley 5y agoIt's possible to authenticate TXT records, you just have to do it yourself.