GNOME Online Accounts Services on Trisquel
Introduction
Starting on the Trisquel 11.0, codename "Aramo".
Trisquel is no longer advertising questionable privacy practices services as part of GNOME Online Accounts version it provides.
While the GNOME Online Accounts client software might be free software, the use of such tool can potentially risk your privacy by connecting to third party services, also by presenting the company brands it can mislead into thinking those services are somehow promoted by the Trisquel Project or friendly to the free software movement or its users, which is far from the truth.
Such third party services are:
Google, Microsoft, Flickr, Foursquare and Exchange accounts.
Starting on Aramo, while the mentioned providers connectors will remain available for users who want to manually enable them, they will not be advertised by default.
Keeping enabled connectors where servers can be managed on a secure and private way,
- Nextcloud/ ownCloud
- IMAP - SMTP
- Kerberos
Enable third party services
Important: As mentioned before, even when the gnome-online-accounts client it's free software, if users choose to enable these providers, they must know that they are choosing on their own risk accept any privacy concerns that connecting to any of those service connectors might represent.
As a rule of thumb, it is strongly advised to only use clients or services that meet your privacy and security requirements instead.
Learn more about the misleading term "cloud" at: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.en.html
In order to enable other possible services, it can be done using the dconf-editor to customize the default schema value at:
org.gnome.online-accounts.whitelisted-providers
where the default value is,
['kerberos','owncloud','imap_smtp']
The complete list of available values for trisquel g-o-a is:
- owncloud
- windows_live
- flickr
- foursquare
- exchange
- imap_smtp
- kerberos
