Re: Telemetry, opt-in,opt-out [was: Proposal: new default bindings for winner and windmove]

[Daniel Colascione]

On June 23, 2024 10:14:36 AM EDT, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 09:48:26AM -0400, Daniel Colascione wrote:
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>> Opt-out collection of anonymous metrics has been an industry standard for 
>> many years now.
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>Whatever "industry standard" means. Industry standard is
>surveillance capitalism these days. Not something to strive
>for, not in free software's context, I think.
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>Cheers

Nothing to do with free software. A free program that collects anonymized usage 
metrics is still free. The simple fact is that the more you learn about your 
users's preferences, the better you can satisfy their desires. As long as users 
can opt out, I see no moral quandary whatsoever, especially if the program 
explicitly asks the user about anonymized data collection on first startup.