Accessing third-party repositories

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

upon starting JOSM I was greeted by, among other things, messages that
loaded content from "wikidata.org" and "sophox.org".

I have not actively enabled something that would make these queries, nor
have I been asked for my consent to transmit the fact that someone is
using JOSM at this IP number to wikidata.org or sophox.org.

I can understand that if I load Ilya's geochat plugin it will phone home
to Ilya's server, or if I enable certain imagery layers they will load
data from the imagery server. Also it is clear that JOSM will access the
OSM and JOSM servers. But I think that we should not add random third
party web sites that are under control of neither OSMF nor the JOSM team
to the mix without explaining this to the user and asking for their consent.

Would it perhaps make sense to build a generic "consent to access server
X" feature into the JOSM core, and anyone - whether core or plugin -
would then have to acquire user consent once before accessing a remote
resource?

Bye
Frederik

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