[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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