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spyoungtech / FreeSimpleGUI

The free-forever GUI library
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
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remove upgrade and user data collection code #6

Closed spyoungtech closed 3 months ago

spyoungtech commented 3 months ago

Prior to the creation of this fork, PySimpleGUI included code that would collect user system data and send it to an 'upgrade server' as well as perform upgrades by receiving responses from the upgrade server and downloading files from GitHub dynamically. This functionality was not only insecure but, in my personal estimations, violated the privacy of PySimpleGUI users.

This functionality was already effectively disabled prior to the first PyPI release of FreeSimpleGUI (the addresses to the remote servers, presumably controlled by the author(s) of PySimpleGUI were removed from the source code, so attempted data collections/upgrades would simply fail) -- this change is just a cleanup effort and completely removes this now-dead/ineffective code.

To be certain and for the avoidance of any doubt: the maintainers of FreeSimpleGUI (me) have never used the FreeSimpleGUI software to collect data of its users without consent (or otherwise) and it will never do so. We firmly believe in your rights to privacy and promise to continue working to respect that privacy.

ckolumbus commented 1 month ago

❤️ Thanks for supporting this fork the way you do !!!!