Atom editor still phones home prior to consent dialog

Re:Atom editor still phones home prior to consent dialog by vunie on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @07:21PM (#21644145)

>Having users on unpatched software is a bigger risk to them than not having 100% perfect insulation from sending their IP address to Microsoft.

That's not a decision for Github to make. Let the user decide. Perhaps by even presenting them with a dialog on first run that informs them then asks them ti decide.

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Re:Atom editor still phones home prior to consent dialog by Multicomp on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @08:18PM (#21644452)

I agree wholeheartedly.

Somewhere out there (prog21 ?) is an article stating that the one in desperate need of electricity (the computing device) is subject to the one in a position to provide it (the user), and I agree with that sentiment.

I'd even like an IETF-standard-like T-shirt that says 'The user's will MUST be obeyed as faithfully as possible unless prevented by unrecoverable circumstances' or something like that.

Click-through EULAs and dialog boxes are another symptom of the 'elite-developer-itis' our industry can sometimes exude.

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