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There isn't anything collecting information about you, empathy uses online accounts integration to provide the credentials necessary to login to those services. It isn't really different than with the earlier versions of empathy where you gave empathy your login information directly. Now when you setup the account, you can also choose to let other ...
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Telepathy is a framework for instant messaging. When you set up a chat account in the Online Accounts settings panel, you're setting up a login associated with Telepathy.
Empathy is a frontend for Telepathy. That is, Empathy provides a user interface for interacting with the Telepathy system.
If you wanted to, you could replace Empathy with another ...
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I found the answer here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center-signon/+bug/1180297/comments/to do is
gksu gedit /usr/share/accounts/providers/facebook.provider
add < setting name="AllowedSchemes" type="as">['https','http'] with the others settings remove the space after <
and save
it worked for me but the guy who posted it ...
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I found a Workaround. Check this : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center-signon/+bug/1180297/comments/4.
Edit /usr/share/accounts/providers/facebook.provider
sudo gedit /usr/share/accounts/providers/facebook.provider
Put this under line 13,
<setting name="AllowedSchemes" type="as">['https','http']</setting>
...
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You can remove online accounts by using dconf editor.
Open dconf-editor using either terminal or the application menu in unity. Navigate the menu items as:
com>canonical>unity>webapps
Select allowed-domains and you should see the installed webapps listed there.
Simply delete the list to make it empty.
If that doesn't do it, using dconf-editor, ...
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I had also this issue. It happend most if you start empathy on start-up with empathy -h.
I solved it to add killall empathy && empathy -h to startup. Sometimes even then it would not work. Then just open terminal and do killall empathy && empathy -h again.
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I founded that program don't show up when you added empathy to the start up ...
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