[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #5066: Anonymize update checking

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#5066: Anonymize update checking
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 Reporter:  zamoose                        |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement                    |       Status:  reopened 
 Priority:  normal                         |    Milestone:  3.0      
Component:  Administration                 |      Version:           
 Severity:  normal                         |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:  has-patch 2nd-opinion privacy  |  
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Comment(by Denis-de-Bernardy):

 It also collects theme information, and active plugin information.

 Suggesting we close this as wontfix once and for all, personally. I
 totally hate the idea of sending the site url, but I completely understand
 the reasoning behind almost all, if not every single bit, of this
 information:

  - WP version, Plugin version, and Theme version are all needed for update
 checks
  - Plugin data is needed to identify the plugins; some plugins have
 similar names, and their directory/file name, author, url, etc. are all
 needed in order to discriminate, say, My Super Plugin from author A, from
 My Super Plugin from author B.
  - Theme data is needed to identify the themes, for the very same reason
  - I doubt that a plugin's description gets stored anywhere on wp.org, so
 maybe we can get rid of that in order to remove network clutter

 The url might be questionable... But it seems to benign. And I can see
 reasons for collecting it. As well as reasons for not wanting to change
 the unique identifier -- namely, blogs would endup up changing ID when
 upgrading.

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