On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 3:22 PM, <bitchplease(a)getbackinthe.kitchen> wrote:
> 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.
By the choice of the user. If the user doesn't wish to connect it
there is no impact what so ever. It's a choice.
> 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.
There's no correlation between that and Fedora. There's no forcing you
and no defaults. I also note that you leave out the Owncloud and
"other" option which allows you to connect to self hosted
alternatives. It's all completely opt in.
> On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 14:36 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:h
> 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.
Yes it is. Owncloud and other auth options like kerberos are custom
providers that don't need 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.
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