04-15-2016, 02:34 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-15-2016, 02:36 AM by LogicParrot.)
Call me old school, paranoid, or "over-ideologist", but I think it's wrong for a program to call the mothership without the user explicitly allowing it to do so. The user should be in control. A program is a guest on my machine, it should ask me for explicit permissions whenever it wants to do something not completely expected.
I'm not alone here, the Free Software community tends to follow that same spirit:
- Mozilla will not autocomplete your browser bar searches without asking you if it may connect to the net. (It will, however, connect to sites without explicitly asking, since that is expected of a browser).
- VLC will ask your permission before ever connecting to the net, even for update checking.
I'm not alone here, the Free Software community tends to follow that same spirit:
- Mozilla will not autocomplete your browser bar searches without asking you if it may connect to the net. (It will, however, connect to sites without explicitly asking, since that is expected of a browser).
- VLC will ask your permission before ever connecting to the net, even for update checking.