ANNOUNCE: xfce4-weather-plugin 0.8.0 released

[houghi]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:54:15AM +0200, Harald Judt wrote:
> 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. 

This is enough for me to not want it. They already know so much. Giving
them even more while it can be avoided is a big no-no for me.

> 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.

Yes, others will gain the same information, but without the ability to
crossreference everything. Remember that Google is a copmany that sells
advertisement to companies.

I feel better when the data goes to a company that sells weather and not
one where I am the product and everything I do is interconnected.


houghi
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Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The
theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit
of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers. -- Heinlein