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by rkharsan64 679 days ago
It seems like the right way to respect a user's privacy, but opt-in telemetry just doesn't work.

I see the concerns as a user (and disable telemetry wherever I can), but at the same time if I were to add telemetry to my OSS project, I would either make it opt out, or just not add it at all.

The people who actually enable telemetry are a huge minority, and the data collected would be completely useless due to bias.

The best way, in my opinion, is to have completely unidentifiable telemetry (not sure if something like this even exists), or nothing at all.

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> The best way...

The best way is not to have telemetry at all. But then that's a user-centric take.