Giving preferential treatment to proprietary web services via an (effectively mandatory) webapps.xml is antithetical to the very first foundational value of the Fedora project per https://docs.fedoraproject.org/fedora-project/project/fedora-overview.html To specifically quote from that page: "Advancing software and content freedom is a central community goal, which we accomplish through the software and content we promote." The current list is: Kindle Cloud Reader Ask Fedora BBC iPlayer Devdocs.io Dropbox Facebook Google Drive Google Maps Google Plus Google Talk Twitter Telegram Ask Fedora is the only free/open service on that list, and Facebook, Google and Amazon, some of the worst offenders in terms of their treatment of user data, occupy 50% of it. It's not possible to remove appstream-data without removing gnome-software, making this list effectively a mandatory promotion of proprietary services in Fedora Workstation's graphical software installer. Either the closed services in webapps.xml, or if that's not possible, then the entire list, should be split out into a separate, optional package. In addition, I'd suggest that that package shouldn't be installed by default at all, since it's counter to a Fedora foundation.
Looks like devdocs is also open from brief inspection, sorry, so 2/12 instead of 1/12.
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Richard, can you please split out the proprietary web services into a separate package that is not depended on by GNOME Software? It's appalling that there's non-removable promotion of companies as awful as Facebook in GNOME Software, and the evidence for that company's moral bankruptcy has just piled up week after week in the year since this bug was filed. Google isn't far behind these days either.
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Still a problem in F31, and Facebook is the current frontrunner in the hotly contested competition for "worst corporate psychopath" :J
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This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 34 development cycle. Changing version to 34.
Dear Maintainer, I understand it is not going to be the highest priority to look into this but I think fednuc is right - by leaving this as it is, Fedora is advertising proprietary services which directly compete with FOSS alternatives and it goes against core values. This reminds me of the reason I eventually stopped using Ubuntu at home - that they stuck with their advertising of Amazon in the default installation. This should be available to add as an option, not in place by default and unremovable for most home users. If I search for "Maps" in Gnome Software, I can see Google Maps. Why is that in there? Fedora might as well be shipping all of Google's (closed) software as RPMs in that case - something which, to the credit of the Fedora project, cannot be done. Hell, even Facebook is in there, with some lovely text saying "Give people the power to share". How wonderful. Incidentally, Facebook has played a real role in destroying the politics of my country - and now my favourite Linux distribution is advertising it to me in its default installation and provides no way of turning that off. Please, I know not everyone is going to think this is a big deal, but it is pretty clearly not in line with Fedora's mission and a lot of us use Fedora because it gives freedom of choice - i.e. the base is free and open, and we can choose what else we add afterwards. Please consider making webapps.xml a separate package, maybe don't have it installed by default. I don't have a problem with it being there but I really think it needs to be optional.
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