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by AndrewStephens 2979 days ago
Allow me to spend a few words shooting the messenger: This blog post comes across as petulant whining with a side order of personal attack. The author needs someone to buy them a drink and explain that Caddy is just not that into them and there are plenty of fish in the sea.

Having said that, I have no idea why the makers of Caddy think that telemetry is a good idea. None of the examples given on the Caddy site make any sense to me except for maybe reporting crashes. Who cares about the depth of certificate chains? What value does it bring?
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elcore 2979 days ago
> Who cares about the depth of certificate chains? What value does it bring?

The data will be used to analyze the Internet from the server perspective, similar to e.g Mozilla collecting data from the clients perspective. It can/will be used by e.g researchers to improve the Internet (security, speed etc.)

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AndrewStephens 2979 days ago
Who are these researchers? Does Caddy have the kind of market share that would make that information useful?

I could sort of understand it is this was being pitched as a way to improve Caddy by reporting back crashes or misconfigurations. But what I've heard makes no sense to me.

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