Disable phone-home to api.qloapps.com

Add _QLO_DISABLE_PHONE_HOME_ (default true) and honour it in
Tools::addonsRequest(), Tools::refresh(), the installer notification and
the theme catalog fetch. This stops sending admin name/email, shop domain
and country on install, the daily upgrade check, the admin
"recommendation" HTML and module/theme catalog requests.
Language and localization pack downloads stay available.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

classes/Tools.php

@@ -3374,6 +3374,10 @@ exit;
     protected static $is_addons_up = true;
     public static function addonsRequest($request, $params = array())
     {
+        if (defined('_QLO_DISABLE_PHONE_HOME_') && _QLO_DISABLE_PHONE_HOME_) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
         if (!self::$is_addons_up) {
             return false;
         }
@@ -3485,6 +3489,10 @@ exit;
      */
     public static function refresh($file_to_refresh, $external_file)
     {
+        if (defined('_QLO_DISABLE_PHONE_HOME_') && _QLO_DISABLE_PHONE_HOME_) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
         if (self::$is_addons_up && $content = Tools::file_get_contents($external_file)) {
             return (bool)file_put_contents(_PS_ROOT_DIR_.$file_to_refresh, $content);
         }

config/defines_uri.inc.php

@@ -84,6 +84,13 @@ define('_MODULE_DIR_',                    __PS_BASE_URI__.'modules/');
 Tools::safeDefine('_PS_API_DOMAIN_',                'api.prestashop.com');
 Tools::safeDefine('_PS_API_URL_',                    'http://'._PS_API_DOMAIN_);
 Tools::safeDefine('_PS_CURRENCY_FEED_URL_',            _PS_API_URL_.'/xml/currencies.xml');
+/*
+ * Phone-home kill switch: when true, no data is sent to api.qloapps.com for
+ * installation notification, upgrade checks, admin recommendations or module/theme catalogs.
+ * On-demand language/localization pack downloads stay available.
+ * Define it as false in config/defines.inc.php (before this file) to restore upstream behaviour.
+ */
+Tools::safeDefine('_QLO_DISABLE_PHONE_HOME_',        true);
 Tools::safeDefine('_QLO_API_DOMAIN_',                'api.qloapps.com');
 Tools::safeDefine('_QLO_API_URL_',                    'https://'._QLO_API_DOMAIN_);
 Tools::safeDefine('_QLO_TAB_MODULE_LIST_URL_',        _QLO_API_URL_.'/xml/tab_modules_list.xml');

controllers/admin/AdminThemesController.php

@@ -2049,7 +2049,11 @@ class AdminThemesControllerCore extends AdminController
      */
     private function getNativeModule($type = 0)
     {
+        $xml = false;
         $protocols = array('https://', 'http://');
+        if (defined('_QLO_DISABLE_PHONE_HOME_') && _QLO_DISABLE_PHONE_HOME_) {
+            $protocols = array();
+        }
         foreach ($protocols as $protocol) {
             if($xml = @simplexml_load_string(Tools::file_get_contents($protocol._QLO_API_DOMAIN_.'/xml/'.str_replace('.', '', _QLOAPPS_VERSION_).'.xml'))) {
                 break;

install-dev/models/install.php

@@ -634,6 +634,11 @@ class InstallModelInstall extends InstallAbstractModel
      */
     public function setNotification($installData)
     {
+        // Do not send admin name, email, domain and country to api.qloapps.com
+        if (defined('_QLO_DISABLE_PHONE_HOME_') && _QLO_DISABLE_PHONE_HOME_) {
+            return true;
+        }
+
         Tools::addonsRequest('installation', array(
             'install_data' => $installData,
             'version' => _QLO_INSTALL_VERSION_,