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Has it? It says right on the page you're linking to that it's disabled by default, so you would have to explicitly opt in. Thus nobody complaining, as those who
by ptx 8y ago
Has it? It says right on the page you're linking to that it's disabled by default, so you would have to explicitly opt in. Thus nobody complaining, as those who don't want it won't enable it.
I think it comes from Debian[1] actually, where it's also opt-in – my Debian machine doesn't have it installed. Like it says in the Debian package description: "Vote for your favourite packages automatically". It's voting, not spying – strictly voluntary. Those of us who don't want to vote don't have to.
[1] https://popcon.debian.org/ https://popcon.debian.org/
- josteink 8y ago> it's disabled by default Fair enough, but it wasn’t always like that. > “Vote for your favourite packages automatically". It's voting, not spying That’s just playing with words. What it does is exactly the same: provide the upstream author statistics about what is being used and not. Surely you can’t mean that this is a serious argument.
- ptx 8y agoMy argument is in the part of the sentence you didn't quote. When people go to vote for their government, is that implemented by sending government agents to eavesdrop on people's conversations to suss out what their political preference might be? No. People voluntarily (this is the core of my analogy) go to vote, to make their voice heard. That's the difference between voting and spying. Of course, if popcon were enabled by default, then that would be different and not like voting at all! But that's not what it said on the page you linked.