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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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IMO it's a bad thing if this doesn't get added. FOSS in general has very limited resources, knowing what to work on most urgently will help massively to tackle the most urgent issues
Opt out is not acceptable under any circumstances. It's not your data. It's your users'.
Sending a single bit back without an explicit, uncoerced opt in should be illegal.
The problem with opt-in is that it isn't a good way to get a good sample size. It's very self-selecting. There are ways of collecting telemetry while being privacy-respecting, but whether RedHat is properly anonymizing this user data is a different matter.
I don't care. We don't do deceptive dark patterns in FOSS.