Untitled HamJul 16, 2024
Brodie Robertson

How many times do I need to say it before developers understand it.

If you have opt-out telemetry/analytics and your software targets people who treat digital privacy as a personality trait, those people are going to ignore any of the properties of your system and any justification of its value and call your software spyware.

Jul 16, 2024 at 7:55amWeb
Show threadNiceMicroJul 16, 2024
@BrodieOnLinux yeah but some developers don't think they are targeting the digital privacy minded, they are targeting the general public who don't give a single damn about their product.
Show threadsvin of the land of fumo 🐝Jul 16, 2024
@nicemicro @BrodieOnLinux
Yeah people forget you need to know your core audience.
Dont go beyond your core audience but rather convince those outside of it to turn into it.
Show threadtruhJul 16, 2024
@nicemicro @BrodieOnLinux the general public is just using chrome or chromium fork now.
Show threadMelroy van den BergJul 16, 2024
@BrodieOnLinux yes.. Firefox.. Mozilla..
Show thread𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬Jul 17, 2024
@melroy @BrodieOnLinux It's an open secret that you need to turn of a metric shit-ton of telemetry and pingback stuff via about:config before you should use #Firefox.
Show threadtruhJul 16, 2024
@BrodieOnLinux it's so annoying to have to disable the flag on all my OSs on all my devices, wonder whether there is a flag like that on mobile as well, remember to disable this in future whenever I install a browser. Just an annoying extra step.
Show threadTukanDevJul 16, 2024

@BrodieOnLinux I dont associate myself with that personality trait but if software has opt out telmetry it tells me things:
1. You are collecting bare minimum for fixing crashes and bugs, even if i dont find it nice its your app if you want to track every single click i do and log crash reports sure
2. You are a big company who keeps it enabled knowing users dont care and you can collect whatever you want and you are selling the said data 100%

In both cases im opting out especially option 2.

Show threadMeaTLoTioNJul 17, 2024
@BrodieOnLinux I stopped using Firefox years ago, I used brave. I know it's chromium based, but it's brave, not Google, and it's brave, not Mozilla. If there were other alternatives worthy, I'd try them, but there aren't. I used librewolf a few times, but brave is what I settled on.