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by Barbing 14 days ago
Analytics: if you generate them on my device, and bury an option to manually send them to you when I have a bug--or...

you instead bury an opt-in to automatic telemetry, and let us CC ourselves each ~month when the analytics get sent in to you (so we can verify it's all boring data)...

It's hard for me not to opt in to stuff like that, at least periodically. If I'm opted-in by default? Ehhhhh.... I totally get it, weird "flying blind" (quoting a different dev w/similar philosophy), but I guess I'm still weird myself and hence looking for that autonomy or something? Oh and if somebody makes something opt in, and then certainly if they furthermore stick the option somewhere slightly off the beaten path, that seems pretty darn trustworthy.

(I wonder if we'd have enough public data for a decent statistician to calculate a likely number range of how many users you have by extrapolating from the 1% to 10% or 20% of users who'd chose to opt in...)

PS: "bury" concept likely not actually important :)