From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, "Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>
Subject: Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2018 15:29:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnxwjadt.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87va7oyzbd.fsf@elephly.net>
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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
> Hi Mark,
>
>> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
>>
>>> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> The TODO list for convenience:
>>>>
>>>> * There is still some data transmitted when starting the browser for the
>>>> first time. It seems related to the "domain_reliability" component.
>>>> * Remove remaining "Web Store" links. Currently I've only found it in
>>>> settings, under "accessibility" and "fonts".
>>>> * Opening settings transmits a bunch of data, the next version will
>>>> include the 'disable-translation-lang-fetch' patch from Inox.
>>>> * PDFium is built, but does not seem to work (the 'install' phase
>>>> probably needs tweaking). Might just disable it instead.
>>>>
>>>> It would be *very* nice if the first and third items could be solved
>>>> before merging, but I don’t consider them blockers.
>>>
>>> The GNU FSDG says "The distro must contain no DRM, no back doors, and no
>>> spyware." Since GNU Guix has committed to follow the FSDG, that means
>>> that we must not include programs that include spyware. We have
>>> committed ourselves to "removing such programs if any are discovered."
>>>
>>> Guix _is_ committed to the GNU FSDG, right?
>
> Of course it is.
>
>>> Do you agree that #1 and #3 look like spyware? If so, wouldn't that
>>> make them blockers?
>
> #3 looks like it’s fetching translation information, which seems
> legitimate. #1 is unclear to me, honestly, as it seems to be a bug.
> AIUI the “domain_reliability” component is not enabled by default.
>
> For context I read a little about this “domain_reliability” thing and
> found this Google document (I don’t know if this is an official
> publication by the Chromium developers):
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/14U0YA4dlzNYciq2ke0StEMjomdBUN6ocSt1kN03HJ0s/pub#h.20j0auqi631o
>
> From what I understand, the “Domain Reliability Monitoring” feature in
> Chromium is sending connection successes / failures for resources on a
> participating domain to a collection point determined by the operators
> of that domain, i.e. not necessarily to Google.
Woah, good find! Apparently this is being submitted as a W3C standard:
<https://w3c.github.io/network-error-logging/>.
I'll try to find a toggle. If this package gets into Guix, I think we
should add system tests (or similar) to catch regressions in the
unsolicited network traffic area.
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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-29 9:03 Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium Clément Lassieur
2018-08-29 15:24 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-08-29 16:14 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2018-08-29 18:16 ` Leo Famulari
2018-08-29 21:25 ` Amirouche Boubekki
2018-08-29 22:35 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-29 23:26 ` Amirouche Boubekki
2018-08-30 7:43 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30 1:12 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-08-30 5:14 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30 9:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-30 10:04 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-08-30 11:01 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30 12:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-30 13:30 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-08-30 11:00 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30 16:35 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-08-30 9:07 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-08-30 9:20 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-08-30 16:38 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-08-30 8:41 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-08-30 8:54 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30 12:11 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-08-30 14:23 ` Amin Bandali
2018-09-01 14:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-01 17:31 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-09-01 20:28 ` Amin Bandali
2018-09-02 13:54 ` Marius Bakke
2018-09-02 16:21 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-01 17:53 ` Joshua Branson
2018-09-01 23:18 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-09-03 20:57 ` Joshua Branson
2018-09-04 8:13 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-09-02 5:33 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-02 6:35 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-02 8:13 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-02 10:21 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-09-02 13:29 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2018-09-02 16:48 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-09-04 21:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-02 6:52 ` Leo Famulari
2018-08-30 9:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-07 9:29 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-09-15 10:36 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-09-17 13:28 ` Chromium channel Marius Bakke
2018-09-17 14:16 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-09-17 18:08 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-09-17 17:57 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-09-22 12:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
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2018-08-30 23:38 ` Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium Benjamin Slade
2018-08-31 16:57 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-09-01 14:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-01 18:44 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-09-02 4:57 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-09-05 20:57 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
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