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Please use the original, less inflammatory title: "more diagnostics data from desktop." Understandably, Canonical wants to collect diagnostic data useful for s

by cs702 9y ago

Please use the original, less inflammatory title: "more diagnostics data from desktop." Understandably, Canonical wants to collect diagnostic data useful for software development and bug fixing. Other major OS providers like Google, Microsoft, and Apple do this. I like the fact that Canonical is doing it in an open manner: anyone can opt out by unchecking a box at installation or afterwards on the privacy panel; and they will make aggregate diagnostic data available to the public.

OnlyRepliesToBS 9y ago
It's User snooping. Telemetry. Spyware. "Oh look, everyone else is doing it" Dark patterns make them join the dark side.
pferde 9y ago
> So you ask the user during install. Then the data is sent on first > boot. At what point can the user inspect the data, given that some of > it can't be collected until after installation is finished? It seems > like the first opportunity will be after it has been sent, unless you > ask the user a second time. So why not just ask them on first boot, > when you have already gathered all the data? That way user can inspect > the data there and then before deciding how to answer. Yes, I think the first opportunity would be after it has been sent. I'm generally against asking more questions on login though, I think it would be clunky. Do I understand it correctly that they want to send the data the first time unconditionally after installation, and only then present the user with the opt-out choice? I really hope I understood it wrong.