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

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 11:54:55 -0500, Brent Busby wrote:
>Robin Gareus <robin at gareus.org> writes:
>[...]
>> 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/
>
>True

Not really true. It's possible to make an averaged Firefox, Pale Moon
etc. secure, however, the best bet would be to use
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en . As already
pointed out, for some computer usage, of some people, in some regions of
the planet, it's better to disable every phone home option. The uname
request from Ardour + the full opened Windows size reported by a web
browser + geolocation send by your weather applet and even the most
trustworthy VPN service becomes useless.

Firefox is a web browser, we expect that it's connected to the
Internet. Ardour is a DAW, the distros package management informs about
upgrades without asking what kernel a user has got installed. While I
agree that Ardour's phone home isn't a serious issue for most of us,
it's still grotesque to compare Ardour with Firefox. There's no good
reason for Ardour to phone home by default. Distro independent upgrades
could be announced by a news letter.