Bug#928055: change "disable-pings" to "no-pings"?
Michael Gilbert: The disable-pings flag has to do with the component updater [0]. [0]components/component_updater/component_updater_command_line_config_policy.cc Thanks! Full quote from upstream source: // Disables pings. Pings are the requests sent to the update server that report // the success or the failure of component install or update attempts. const char kSwitchDisablePings[] = "disable-pings"; https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/components/component_updater/component_updater_command_line_config_policy.cc?type=cs=disable-pings=package:chromium=0=33 -- ilf If you upload your address book to "the cloud", I don't want to be in it. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#928055: change "disable-pings" to "no-pings"?
control: severity -1 wishlist control: retitle -1 chromium: add "no-pings" flag On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 7:09 PM ilf wrote: > So either I am missing something here, or the Debian package > default-flags should replace "disable-pings" with "no-pings". The disable-pings flag has to do with the component updater [0]. Setting no-pings could be a useful addition. Best wishes, Mike [0]components/component_updater/component_updater_command_line_config_policy.cc
Bug#928055: change "disable-pings" to "no-pings"?
Package: chromium Version: 74.0.3729.108-1 The HTML Living Standard of the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group specifies Hyperlink auditing AKA "pinging": https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/links.html#hyperlink-auditing The Debian chromium package tries to disable this by default: # Disable pinging export CHROMIUM_FLAGS="$CHROMIUM_FLAGS --disable-pings" https://salsa.debian.org/chromium-team/chromium/raw/master/debian/etc/default-flags However, the upstream source code uses "no-pings", not "disable-pings": // Don't send hyperlink auditing pings const char kNoPings[] = "no-pings"; https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc?q=kNoPings=package:chromium=cs=438 This is also echoed by a Google Software Engineer working on Google, Chrome & Android: --no-pings Don't send hyperlink auditing pings https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/#no-pings So either I am missing something here, or the Debian package default-flags should replace "disable-pings" with "no-pings". -- ilf If you upload your address book to "the cloud", I don't want to be in it. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
