farchord
July 7, 2023, 11:37am
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dalto:
Here is the core problem in my opinion. Linux has a higher percentage of privacy-centric users than other operating systems because many people come to Linux specifically for that reason. None of us know exactly what that percentage is. It is not 80+% as some people have implied but it also isn’t some insignificant minority as other have implied. I would guess that on a distro like Fedora it is probably somewhere in the 25-40% of users range.
That portion of the Fedora community will be completely alienated by opt-out metrics. Even if it doesn’t make sense to you personally that this would be the case, it is clear from the comments here and elsewhere that this portion of the community feels strongly about it.
Ultimately, Fedora has a decision to make. Is collecting this data via an opt-out mechanism valuable enough to warrant isolating and alienating that portion of the community?
I don’t know about other members here, but I came from Windows and one of the major reasons why I even went through the trouble of switching was to get away from Microsoft’s mandatory telemetry that’s now peppered all over the OS…
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