On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 08:56:02AM +0200, houghi wrote:
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 08:19:45AM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
- You can restrict the information it sends on your hardware and system to a minimum.
For some people minimum is still too much, although it is very obvious that the data that is send has only statistical use. The moment you send somebody something, they will see your IP. The use for this is to see e.g. in what countries how much is downloaded.
The timezone is actually used to determine the mirror you get. Just like before, except before it was done on every YOU call.
That all said, it is very easy not to register by selecting 'later'. Naturaly by testing the internetconnection, you already give away your IP adress.
This has not changed from the previous versions, except we downloaded the mirrorlist on every you start. You could be behind a proxy too which hides your ip address. Your provider likely has one. Ciao, Marcus