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Re. [0]: how does anonymous telemetry (number of unique installs per package) constitute spyware? Re. [1]: GitHub pays the bills for (a large part of) the infr
by Hackbraten 6y ago
Re. [0]: how does anonymous telemetry (number of unique installs per package) constitute spyware?
Re. [1]: GitHub pays the bills for (a large part of) the infrastructure we’re using. They reached out to us, explained the problem and asked us to unshallow. Honestly, what would you have done instead of complying?
- remix2000 6y agoAd "Re. [0]": If some program is calling a third party without explicitly asking the user in the first place (especially when we're talking about a compromised company such as Google), that's spyware. Debian has solved it in a user-friendly manner in their ``popcon``: they just ask you kindly if you want to report stats to them. It's hard for me to imagine someone putting opt-in telemetry in good will… Ad "Re. [1]": It's pretty obvious that there are people who cannot afford "unshallowing"; one would expect at least a command line switch for "power users", even if it was to be called ``--i-am-a-stubborn-jerk-and-i-am-fine-with-generating-excessive-load-on-github-infrastructure``. I'm sure that GH would be satisfied. :)
- Hackbraten 6y ago> It's hard for me to imagine someone putting opt-in telemetry in good will You can’t imagine package maintainers would want to know unique install counts per package so maintainers can prioritize work? In good faith? Opt-in is not a choice. It would render the numbers largely meaningless.