[Tharkun]

Wonderful. I guess I'll now have to find a way to regenerate this UUID or to spoof it every time Fedora tries to phone home.

If you want to count users, ask for permission during firstboot. If that's too much to ask, then I'll be in the market for a new OS. Maybe I'll finally go back to my first love: FreeBSD.

[MBCook]

Read the whole article. They seem to have decided against that and for a simple ‘countme’ flag on update requests to mirrors. Possibly by only a random subset of machines.

No tracking, just simple numeric data for for purpose.