[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 filosofo):

 Replying to [comment:27 Denis-de-Bernardy]:
 >  - WP version, Plugin version, and Theme version are all needed for
 update checks

 Not so. A client doesn't need to give its ''own'' version to request and
 receive the current version of WP core, plugins, or themes.  In fact a
 request sans self-identification would take up less bandwidth and the
 response would involve fewer CPU cycles on the part of the WP.org server.
 So not only is it not technically necessary, there are technical reasons
 (i.e. outside the moral issue of privacy) to prefer it.

 And to really save bandwidth and CPU cycles, we could push out update info
 with something like PubSubHubbub or RSSCloud.

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