Atom text editor 1.4 released

Re:Atom text editor 1.4 released by Atom4966 on Thursday January 14, 2016 @07:11AM (#10900875)

Please note: https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/4966 remains open and packages `metrics` and `exception-reporting` are still enabled by default.

* metrics: sends personal data to Google Analytics

* exception-reporting: sends personal data to bugsnag.com

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Re:Atom text editor 1.4 released by mrspeaker on Thursday January 14, 2016 @12:21PM (#10902762)

Thank you for the heads up - I've been using Atom for 6 months and did not know they had these enabled.

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Re:Atom text editor 1.4 released by AlexeyBrin on Thursday January 14, 2016 @07:42AM (#10900979)

The good part about using an open source editor is that you can disable (and know about them) these packages if you don't want to be tracked.

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Re:Atom text editor 1.4 released by PhilipA on Thursday January 14, 2016 @08:07AM (#10901105)

Yes, but you first have to know about it.

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