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Contacting a server IS asking. You can block the connection if you like.

• teacup50 12y ago
  How is contacting a server, unnecessarily and without user's informed consent or even knowledge, considered asking?
  • myhf 12y ago
    When it's done by software running on hardware you control, it has to consult your hosts file and your iptables and your proxies and your routers. Ultimately it can't do anything you don't let it. You don't have to opt-in to paying attention to the connections each program makes, but you also don't have to willfully ignore them. If you care about that sort of situational awareness, there are tools like Little Snitch that make it easier.
    • teacup50 12y ago
      That's the dumbest definition of "user consent" I've ever heard.
      • nyrina 12y ago
        Well, it means every user to ever visit my website has consented to having my virus' on their PC, right?