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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 74218@debbugs.gnu.org, Eshel Yaron <me@eshelyaron.com>,
	stefankangas@gmail.com, me@fabionatali.com
Subject: bug#74218: [PATCH] Ask confirmation before sending region to search engine.
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 10:02:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877c9fmn7b.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86bjyrqvb0.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 07 Nov 2024 10:53:23 +0200")

>>>>> On Thu, 07 Nov 2024 10:53:23 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:

    Eli> Also, does anyone have an opinion about asking for confirmation only
    Eli> for regions that are large enough?  E.g., when the region is a single
    Eli> word, do we want to ask for confirmation anyway?

The default for sending stuff to remote servers should be not to do it
unless explicitly authorized, even if the amount of data is small: the
submission itself provides data about your machine, IP, location etc.

Robert
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  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-07  9:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-06  0:46 bug#74218: [PATCH] Ask confirmation before sending region to search engine Fabio Natali via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-06 12:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-06 13:18   ` Fabio Natali via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-06 13:38     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-06 15:27   ` Fabio Natali via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-07  1:51     ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-07  8:42       ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-07  8:53         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-07  9:02           ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2024-11-07 10:49             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-07 11:03               ` Robert Pluim
2024-11-07 11:05                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-07 11:19                   ` Robert Pluim
2024-11-07 11:29                   ` Fabio Natali via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-07 11:56                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-07 14:04                       ` Fabio Natali via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-07  9:12           ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-07 10:52             ` Eli Zaretskii

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