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by effdee 532 days ago
> I'd rather focus on standardizing a transparent and privacy safe way to gather these metrics. Consumers would know what metrics are collected and there would be guarantees that privacy is kept.

I'd rather see laws to have it disabled by default. People who don't mind can then opt-in again.

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If we do that the relative cost of software will increase and reliability will overall decrease. This doesn't sound like a great outcome for end users who will end up dealing with both of these things.