[LAU] How to disable Ardour's phone home option?

[Paul Davis]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Robin Gareus <robin at gareus.org> wrote:

> You can also disable update notifications at runtime. The URL is in the
> config file. On GNU/Linux by default ~/.config/ardour4/config and/or
> /etc/ardour4/config

my apologies for forgetting about this configuration option.

> It's a service provided to to people who are interested in new version
> notifications.  As the pingback page on ardour.org says: "Ardour.org has
> no idea who you are or what you are doing with Ardour (and we don't want
> to know either)."

and that really does say it all.

> Heck, if you're worried about this, you can't even surf the web to begin
> with. A simple firefox http request sends a lot more private information
> about the user. See https://panopticlick.eff.org/

amen.