[lillecarl]

My thoughts seem controversial, but i don't see the problem with things like this when you're able to opt out. As long as there's some kind of notice somewhere saying that you'll be part of data collection by default.

People should already know this here but it seems they often ignore it: Data collection can be useful for developers so they can see what features are used the most and which are used the least. If there's a nice feature that people aren't using then maybe it should be "promoted" better in documentation for people to find it, optimise functions people are using amongst other things.

[oblio]

I don't have any solid sources backing what I'm saying right now, but based on what I've read and what I know about sales and marketing, the difference between opt-in and opt-out is huge (much bigger than the 3 letter difference :) ).

With opt-in you only reach something like 10% of your users, if you're like, while opt-out is the exact opposite, you reach 80-90%.

This creates massive financial incentives to be sneaky and push opt-out.

And every time this happens for products where there's decent competition, the people doing this lose a chunk of their users...