[Wine] Re: Is winetricks sending reports to the developer?

[kartal]

dimesio wrote:
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> kartal wrote:
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> > Not sure what this is supposed to be. Is it saying that the developer is getting usage reports by default? If so how nasty is that. I did nto use the -optin option, it sounds like it is --optin by default. Quite disgusting, whatever that is .
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> My understanding is that it is off by default, and only turned on if the user voluntarily opts in. Are you sure you didn't opt in at some point, perhaps while experimenting with winetricks? Once you opt in, it will stay that way until you actively opt out.


I doubt that I was messing with it, and I doubt that I did optin willingly. This tactic is used by malware developers and I just  hopr that this was not intentional in any way. 

There is nothing wrong with asking people`s feedback, or usage statistics, as  long as it is done transparently and openly.