Condenser leaks my reading activity to the blockchain

[sneak]

Marking my notifications read leaks a timestamp (telemetry) of my use of the site to the blockchain in the form of the setLastRead custom_json operation.

Condenser should never, ever leak information about when I am reading the site or notifications to the public. That's a privacy invasion and a breach of user trust.

[netuoso]

When you issue a vote it also has a timestamp. When you reblog or comment or literally any transaction where you interact with the blockchain it "leaks telemetry".

You could have the custom_json automated, but you indicated that you don't automate it. Therefore YOU leaked telemetry about your own behavior.

[sneak]

Reblogs and votes are public actions: publishing and monetary allocation, specifically. Reading notifications is not. You seem to be conflating writes with reads.

[netuoso]

You are talking about condenser as if it values user privacy. It never did. On top of that, Steemit is now owned by the Chinese government.

Quit pretending like you have some code of ethics.

[sneak]

Condenser-the-software has little to do with Steemit-the-company, and GitHub has an irrevocable license to publicly distribute the issue list, so I'm not really sure how anything you wrote is on topic for this issue.

AFAIK the forked blockchain that people made in response to the sale of the company is also using condenser. Implementations are important, regardless of how you feel about the people or groups using them.

I don't much care who owns Steemit Inc, and never did.

[netuoso]

You are a joke @sneak you told the community to die in a fire when you had a position of power at SteemIt.

Just go away and pretend people want your presence somewhere else.

[skzap]

Condenser was made open-source a long time ago and is not owned by any government. There are many running instances, and if you think the main one steemit.com feeds data to a foreign government, it would be better to report this to your local authorities rather than cry on GitHub about it.

Anyway, when a user votes or comment, he is aware of the fact that the data will be public and sent to the blockchain. It's clearly not the case for notifications being read. Maybe add a yes/no popup warning the users about it the first time:
In order to synchronise your notifications between device, condenser needs to report notifications usage to the blockchain. They should have the choice of 'No'.