[aarondia]

Thanks for that feedback. Mito's approach to telemetry is that we never log any of your data or metadata about your data. We don't track things like the size, shape, or content of your data.

We do collect info about app usage, things like which buttons users click. This allows us to focus development time on improving the features that are used most often.

That being said, it's important to us that there is a way to be totally telemetry-less if users don't want any information to be leave their computer. Compared to most other cloud-based sass data science tools where you pretty much have no hope of total privacy, we're proud of the flexibility that we offer.

But of course, we're always open to feedback about how we can continue to improve our practices!

[learndeeply]

I don't get it. What in the license prevents users from removing the telemetry? AGPL just means the user needs to open source that change, right?

Edit: To remove telemetry, just call:

   from mitoinstaller.user_install import go_pro; go_pro();

No licensing or payment required, and doesn't violate the license.

[narush]

Mito is open source, but using Pro features does actually require a Pro or enterprise license. You can check out this callout in the license [1], as well as the restrictions on Mito Pro features here [2]. We're in the process of fixing up the upgrade to Pro process a bit... as you can tell... :)

You can of course fork Mito and turn off telemetry as long as you open source your changes! Go for it - happy to hop on a call and help you get set up with the codebase, if you want. Yay open source!

[1] https://github.com/mito-ds/monorepo/blob/974091b455950c6c50e... [2] https://github.com/mito-ds/monorepo/blob/dev/mitosheet/mitos...

[imcoconut]

Mito looks awesome.

Just want to say that I respect the fact that you built this library, are offering it open source, for free, and want the telemetry on. You are up front and open about it.

Sometimes I think people can get a little entitled with all the work someone else puts in to a project they want to use (not accusing GP of this, speaking generally). As you said, under the license anyone is more than welcome to fork, modify and open source. Yay open source indeed :)

[narush]

Thanks a ton!

[teruakohatu]

You should consider using something other than pip to distribute an installer for the Pro version.

[NoImmatureAdHom]

Just to be very clear, the way to be "totally telemetry-less" is to pay you?

[aarondia]

Yes