On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 14:36 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
gnome-online-accounts does not collect any personal data at all
so claiming that it is spyware is rather much.
Gnome Accounts works like a glue-stick - it connects your machine to the NSA botnet run by
Google, Facebook, Microsoft etc.
As simple as that.
On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 14:36 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
I think the original poster is just trolling
we're not building a mix-and-match, you might be more
interested in another distro (...)
Excuse me Sir, Fedora's tying of hard coded NSA providers to the Gnome Desktop
Environment harms competition between alternative provides, undermines product innovation
and ultimately reduces consumer choice. The default providers are
* Google
* Facebook
* Flickr
* Microsoft Account
* Pocket
* Foursquare
Just to give you an example: In the Microsoft VS the European Union case from 2009, the
European Union fined Microsoft €561 million for tying Windows with Internet Explorer by
default. I see a strange coincidence here.
On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 14:36 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
I use it to connect to my company's IMAP/SMTP and ownCloud services.
That's good for you. But again
1.)
It is not possible for the end-user (or system administrators) to add custom, free
providers without rebuilding from source.
2. )
System administrators can not disable certain NSA providers globally.
3.)
No overview, no rights management. It remains unapparent for the end-user (or system
administrator), what gnome accounts actually does with certain providers, and what
applications it may affect, or if these applications should be allowed to use the given
providers for their own services.
4.)
Fedora harms the market competition, by prompting the end-user after the installation /or
the first login to connect the machine with the NSA botnet, where it lists providers in an
hard-coded order. GOOGLE IS ALWAYS FIRST.
This gnome-accounts "feature" is fishy as fuck, I therefore reserve the right to
contact my local European Union Member of the Parliament in this suspicious case.