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Fedora Workstation 40 Considering To Implement Privacy-Preserving Telemetry (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If it's opt-in and the data is viewable by the user, what exactly is the problem? If privacy-conscious people don't have to use it and it helps devs to prioritize their work, than everyone wins right? GNOME and KDE have the exact same thing and you can see exactly what gets sent. The text files are in plain site in .local. I personally opt-in to all Linux telemetry because I want Linux desktop to be as good as it can be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fake news.

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/55H3DT5CCL73HLMQJ6DK63KCAHZWO7SX/

However, we also want to ensure that the data we collect is meaningful, so gnome-initial-setup will default to displaying the toggle as enabled,even though the underlying setting will initially be disabled. (The underlying setting will not actually be enabled until the user finishes the privacy page, to ensure users have the opportunity to disable the setting before any data is uploaded.) This is to ensure the system is opt-out, not opt-in. This is essential because we know that opt-in metrics are not very useful. Few users would opt in, and these users would not be representative of Fedora users as a whole. We are not interested in opt-in metrics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

lol, read the whole thing. That was one person talking. Red Hat legal doesn't want opt-out. Ya know, the evil IBM company?