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by cjsuk 3247 days ago
Defaults should respect the user first. Consent has to be given, not taken as a default.

Sure ask up front explicitly but don't in passing invoke the first capture before consent has been taken. That's a shitty tactic.

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Collecting basic usage data is not disrespecting the user.
It is when you know you can't persuade them you have a good-enough reason to need it, so instead you don't even try.
In your opinion. Mine differs.