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I'm sure everyone doing tracking of console programs is just chomping at the bit waiting for the creation of an easy-to-remember way for users to opt out... mo

I'm sure everyone doing tracking of console programs is just chomping at the bit waiting for the creation of an easy-to-remember way for users to opt out... more useful would be something like this that lets users opt in or out of the various TYPES of tracking that are done. for example, I don't care about application usage telemetry. if you want to know that it's hard for me to remember a particular subcommand and am often looking up help for that subcommand, I don't care if you want know that. if you want to show me "we're hiring" horsepoo, well you can go away. opt out. same for "please donate, I'm not rich enough yet" messages. and straight ads can just die. options to tweak those things granularly would be welcome, if we're just daydreaming about things that will never get adopted.

yunohn 5y ago
> "please donate, I'm not rich enough yet" Who do you feel entitled enough to judge someone’s humble request for a donation, despite them developing the free software that you use often enough to be annoyed by it?
- naikrovek 5y ago
  if they wanted to be paid, would they not release as a product, instead of releasing as open source? "hey I'm gonna give away my time and effort for free" is not how you get money. it's how you get geek cred or build up a resume or whatever. all fine, of course. do what you want. if you want to charge for your code, charge for it and stop asking for donations every time I clone or build your stuff. have a donation button somewhere so people CAN donate, of course. asking is very .. beggy and it drives me nuts, especially when it's from people who make $500k/yr at their day job.
  - yunohn 5y ago
    This is a very steamed and unfair rant; it really seems like you don’t understand how little FOSS work makes, and how little money is ever donated to most or any projects. I don’t know who hurt you in FOSS, but you sound really mean.
jefftk 5y ago
> if you want to show me "we're hiring" horsepoo, well you can go away. opt out. same for "please donate, I'm not rich enough yet" messages. Neither of those require network requests, so it seems to me that they're a completely different sort of thing than this effort intends to address?

yunohn 5y ago

> "please donate, I'm not rich enough yet" Who do you feel entitled enough to judge someone’s humble request for a donation, despite them developing the free software that you use often enough to be annoyed by it?

naikrovek 5y ago
if they wanted to be paid, would they not release as a product, instead of releasing as open source? "hey I'm gonna give away my time and effort for free" is not how you get money. it's how you get geek cred or build up a resume or whatever. all fine, of course. do what you want. if you want to charge for your code, charge for it and stop asking for donations every time I clone or build your stuff. have a donation button somewhere so people CAN donate, of course. asking is very .. beggy and it drives me nuts, especially when it's from people who make $500k/yr at their day job.
- yunohn 5y ago
  This is a very steamed and unfair rant; it really seems like you don’t understand how little FOSS work makes, and how little money is ever donated to most or any projects. I don’t know who hurt you in FOSS, but you sound really mean.

jefftk 5y ago

> if you want to show me "we're hiring" horsepoo, well you can go away. opt out. same for "please donate, I'm not rich enough yet" messages. Neither of those require network requests, so it seems to me that they're a completely different sort of thing than this effort intends to address?