On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Robin Gareus <robin(a)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.