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#1 Re: Freedom Hacks » Tinfoil Tuxery - Packages_of_interest » 2023-01-29 08:51:40

d1thy
boughtonp wrote:
d1thy wrote:

I thought that i would make this thread, just in case any of you would like to make an "honorable mention" of 'whatever package' you see as doing unnessecary datacollection, or having unnessecary dependencies on some tracking/mining/leaking package.

Several KDE apps on Debian have been compiled with a dependency on kuserfeedback, which continues to collect data even when the relevant setting is supposedly turned off.

$ apt rdepends kuserfeedback-bin
kuserfeedback-bin
Reverse Depends:
$ apt search kuserfeedback-bin
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
kuserfeedback-bin/stable 1.0.0-3 amd64
  user feedback for applications - executables
$

Hmm. On chimera nothing ..
Maybe i'm holding it wrong ?

KDE have claimed that it's ok to generate the data because it's not uploaded.

Just like digitally logging your conversations is not recording, nor is it surveillance because noone is listening in real time...But i digress..

#2 Re: Freedom Hacks » Tinfoil Tuxery - Packages_of_interest » 2023-01-29 08:27:40

d1thy
Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Just use equivs to generate "fake" packages to satisfy those dependencies without providing the functionality.

Appreciate that !
Learning something new :-)

#3 Freedom Hacks » Tinfoil Tuxery - Packages_of_interest » 2023-01-28 12:53:33

d1thy
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My first - and foremost - reason to use devuan is "privacy".
Privacy in the sense that "Having nothing to hide, doesn't entitle anybody else to know anything".
I view "Freedom to choose" as an absolute.
Hence when obscurity is forced, in the name of 'whatever', and removing previous options, my spidey senses goes beserk.
So, going non-systemd was a no-brainer for me.

A few weeks ago, i installed redshift, in order to change colortemp on my screen.
But.. It wanted to install 'geoclue-2.0' and 'iio-sensor-proxy' too.
As it is redshift works fine, for me, without them, but i don't want any privacyleaking 'utilities' forced upon me.

Now...
Having read https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=5406, it is also mentioned that GTK4 has hard dependencies to similar packages.

I did not know that, but luckily pungentweasel did, and chose to share the info.

So.....

I thought that i would make this thread, just in case any of you would like to make an "honorable mention" of 'whatever package' you see as doing unnessecary datacollection, or having unnessecary dependencies on some tracking/mining/leaking package.

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