ANNOUNCE: xfce4-weather-plugin 0.8.0 released

[Harald Judt]

Am 29.07.2012 11:54, schrieb Harald Judt:
>> Likely because users are unhappy with Google being systematically
>> notified of their IP address, but I could ask. In any case, the same
>> issue would arise for the Xfce plugin: People might not be happy with
>> the data flowing from Mountain View.
>
> Personally, I wouldn't care about that. What else do they get except
> your IP and information about how often you've downloaded weather data?
> So maybe they know when you're online and that you're interested in
> weather conditions (who isn't?). Yes, they might combine that data with
> other they have if you're using other of their services. But there will
> be no ads shown, no cookies saved, and you don't have to pay for it.
> You're just downloading an XML page regularly. Any other provider you
> use will gain that kind of information too.

What's more, I think you could even enter an anonymous proxy server and 
use that.

Harald

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