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People advocate so fervently for privacy, but can't be bothered to read a prompt...

• TeMPOraL 10y ago
  Privacy-respecting defaults should be there so that you don't have to spend your whole day reading prompts and ToS looking for that one sentence that fucks you over.
  • andrewguenther 10y ago
    Genuine curiosity question: Are all analytics a violation of privacy? If brew simply sent a message that said "brew was used" with no PII, would that matter? At what point is it an issue?
    • tremon 10y ago
      Are all analytics a violation of privacy? No, only the ones without active informed consent. Privacy is the embodiment of personal choice, after all.
    • TeMPOraL 10y ago
      Honestly, my reaction to that would be "why the fuck is it doing that", possibly followed by a firewall rule or a comment in the source code and rebuild. I'm annoyed when an application connects to the Internet for reasons unrelated to the task it's performing for me. That said, even a ping to the mothership is an identifying information - at minimum, it already contains your IP address. Whatever additional data may be added to that ping will likely also reveal details about the machine you're using. Personally, I'm not a privacy nut; I mostly don't care - I leave plenty of information about myself around. But the thing is, I'm doing it voluntarily and as a primary function of some service. I don't like when applications exfiltrate data for reasons not related to their purpose.