What will you do if I go to the Debian developers Mail-List today and propose to add opt-out usage telemetry? Will you insta-quite Debian? No, you will wait to see if the dev team accepts or rejects the proposal. It’s the same situation here with Fedora.
No need to insta-quit Debian, devs are most likely to simply ignore you or send you a ton of bricks reply. The problem with the Fedora community is that it has been taken as a serious option.
What you’re missing here is that Debian, already has some usage telemetry in the form of the package popularity-contest with stats available here https://popcon.debian.org/. This package is optional (not installed by default) you simply get a prompt at setup asking if you want to participate with the option NO highlighted as default. This how things should be done and what GDPR also pushes for - not a “on by default” with an option to disable it hidden somewhere.
What will you do if I go to the Debian developers Mail-List today and propose to add opt-out usage telemetry? Will you insta-quite Debian? No, you will wait to see if the dev team accepts or rejects the proposal. It’s the same situation here with Fedora.
No need to insta-quit Debian, devs are most likely to simply ignore you or send you a ton of bricks reply. The problem with the Fedora community is that it has been taken as a serious option.
What you’re missing here is that Debian, already has some usage telemetry in the form of the package
popularity-contestwith stats available here https://popcon.debian.org/. This package is optional (not installed by default) you simply get a prompt at setup asking if you want to participate with the option NO highlighted as default. This how things should be done and what GDPR also pushes for - not a “on by default” with an option to disable it hidden somewhere.