[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#700784: imagemagick-doc: advertising / spying beacon in locally installed docs

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Adam Borowski <kilobyte at angband.pl> wrote:
> Package: imagemagick-doc
> Version: 8:6.7.9.3-2
> Severity: normal
>
>
> /usr/share/doc/imagemagick/www/perl-magick.html includes the following:
>
> <div style="margin: 17px auto; float: left;">
>   <script type="text/javascript">
>   <!--
>     google_ad_client = "pub-3129977114552745";
>     google_ad_slot = "5439289906";
>     google_ad_width = 728;
>     google_ad_height = 90;
>   //-->
>   </script>
>   <script type="text/javascript"
>     src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
>   </script>
> </div>
>
> Shoveling advertising crap in locally installed documentation is
> inappropriate.  Even worse, AdBlock assumes local files are supposed to be
> exempt from filtering, and thus lets this go despite user's configuration.
>
> Beyond a (minor) visual annoyance, this is also a privacy hole.
>
> There are other remote files used unconditionally in the docs.  One of them,
> http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7/jquery.min.js, has been
> already reported, the others apparently did not yet.
>
> Please either remove them (when they're ads or spyware), or ship a local
> copy.  A remote link is 100% fine, something that tracks you without your
> request is not.  If a network connection is required to read these docs,
> why are they even shipped in the first place?

I report regularly upstream this kind of problem.

I report this a few month ago. Could you check if fixed upstream ?

Bastien

>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.0
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.7.1-x32 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> imagemagick-doc depends on no packages.
>
> Versions of packages imagemagick-doc recommends:
> ii  chromium [www-browser]   24.0.1312.68-1
> ii  elinks [www-browser]     0.12~pre5-9
> ii  iceweasel [www-browser]  18.0.2-1
>
> Versions of packages imagemagick-doc suggests:
> ii  imagemagick  8:6.7.7.10-5
>
> -- no debconf information
>