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

[Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez]

On 19/10/14 12:11, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> 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?
> 

The following article contains some useful information about this:

Chromium API keys on Debian -- http://lwn.net/Articles/570485/

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