Hi there,
there are too many trackers on too many web pages already. I think we
should make a positive example and have all trackers removed. It appears
that it's not the Apache OpenOffice project who have an advantage from
the tracking junk but only others. Remove them!
Max
Am 15.05.2016 um 23:01 schrieb Dennis E. Hamilton:
There are web pages delivered by Apache OpenOffice properties that, when
browsed, signal their access to tracking sites that collect statistics about
site usage. This is done by fetching scripts and/or images from the sites that
provide the statistics.
This is a form of tracking that is carried out by services not under control of
the Apache OpenOffice project.
The effort to track usage also causes "insecure content" warnings in browsers,
depending on the security options the user has set for their browser and the web address
being used.
PROPOSAL
Remove all tracking elements from AOO-authored and published web pages.
This eliminates an under-used arrangement and also removes the uncertainty that
is raised when visitors are warned that there is insecure content associated
with the web page they are viewing.
This proposal is offered for lazy consensus no earlier than 2016-05-23T23:00Z.
BACKGROUND
We have been enabling https: access to Apache OpenOffice web properties. This
is in line with the desire to use secure connections. By secure is meant that
the traffic on the connection itself is encrypted and there is protection
against man-in-the-middle and spoof sites that high-jack the traffic in some
manner. This is not complete privacy.
As pointed out in a couple of Bugzilla issues, such as
<https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126959>, browsers now report that
there is insecure content being provided on some of the pages that are visited. This
is because browsing the page fetches some content without using https. These sites
are under Apache OpenOffice control and we cannot change to using a secure
connection. Even if we did, it would not change the tracking that is achieved. It
would simply not call attention to it.
These images, and also some scripts, are used for gathering access and usage
statistics from various services.
Since we are not routinely making the available statistics public, this is one
of those we-collect-it-because-we-can and not because-we-need-it. There is, as
far as can be determined on these lists, no active use of the information that
is collected.
-- Dennis E. Hamilton
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