Brodie RobertsonJul 10, 2023

I implore any of the #Fedora #Linux contributors out there that might see this, please do not back the new telemetry proposal. I know telemetry can be incredibly valuable for improving the product offered by Fedora and I'm sure some great improvements can be made with it but I see this as your Amazon Lens moment.

If #FedoraLinux goes ahead with this it doesn't matter that the user can opt-out, it doesn't matter that the data is generic, it doesn't matter that it's anonymized, for now until the end of time Fedora will be called a spyware distro. You will hurt community trust in the project far more than anything you will gain from improving the software and I really don't want to see that happen.

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@BrodieOnLinux i don’t feel the same way at all! People need to chill down. As soon as they hear « telemetry » they go in panic attack. If you really fear telemetry, you need to stop … browsing the web (with google analytics pooring all the data they can and criss cross them with all they can (gmail, youtube, ads etc). The way Fedora intends to collect usage is clean (if they really implement it the way they said (with azafea etc.)). I have no problem with it…
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@Nevil @BrodieOnLinux It's not panic. Just because *you* are fine with normalizing the destruction of privacy, doesn't mean everyone else is, or even that it's a neutral thing.

Defaults matter.

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@http @BrodieOnLinux have you only checked the system proposal ? There is NO information about the user!! It’s all anonymized !!! So don’t talk about loss of privacy !! And the data is OWN by the community !! KDE used something similar with their user feedback system : https://github.com/KDE/kuserfeedback. Did you cry wolf ?They don’t want to stole your data !! They want some help to build a better workstation OS!!
GitHub - KDE/kuserfeedback: Framework for collecting user feedback for apps via telemetry and surveys

Framework for collecting user feedback for apps via telemetry and surveys - GitHub - KDE/kuserfeedback: Framework for collecting user feedback for apps via telemetry and surveys

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