[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#748867: Bug#748867: patch: Let's fix this by adding APIKEY

Martin Steigerwald Martin at lichtvoll.de
Sun Oct 19 10:11:26 UTC 2014


Am Samstag, 18. Oktober 2014, 19:06:33 schrieb Michael Gilbert:
> control: severity -1 important
> 
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 5:12 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > At least adding this key fixed my system.  (I have removed old
> > ~/.chromium directory before adding the API key.  If removal of this is
> > required for upgrade, please consider adding entry to  debian/NEWS)
> 
> That patch, of course as simple as it is, looks ok, almost.  Like I
> said my plan is to put it in a separate chromium-apikeys package.
> 
> I'll have time to work on that tomorrow.  Those interested can then
> press ftp masters for a quick review.

Honestly I am starting to wonder… when does Chromium use Google APIs and 
exactly *why* do Chromium developers *insist* with a nagging warning to have 
API key installed? What user behaviour tracking abilities does it give to 
Google? And did I really disable all privacy harming features in it already?

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