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> 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 ju
by 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.