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If you are privacy-minded, KDE (with the kuserfeedback) should put you off, due to the user data it collects and sends back. You can disable the sending back, b

If you are privacy-minded, KDE (with the kuserfeedback) should put you off, due to the user data it collects and sends back. You can disable the sending back, but not the collection. There are a number of packets that depend on this, so you can't just remove it. Although you can recompile it to disable data collection, it's not something everyone just does.

ChuckNorris89 5y ago
This is the first time I'm hearing about this. Do you have a source?
- nick__m 5y ago
  i had the api reference open as i was trying to automate something in kwin... https://api.kde.org/frameworks/kuserfeedback/html/index.html https://api.kde.org/frameworks/kuserfeedback/html/index.html https://community.kde.org/Policies/Telemetry_Policy https://community.kde.org/Policies/Telemetry_Policy
  - yaantc 5y ago
    Which indicates it's opt-in so off by default. Also there's a pretty clear (IMHO) configuration in the settings that states what is send based on the level you select. So what's the problem? It's only a way to contribute usage feedback if and only as much as you want to.
    - emilsedgh 5y ago
      This is correct. KDE's user feedback collection is: * Opt-in. * Has several different levels of sharing and pretty clear about what is being shared. * Even at the most relaxed level, it's fully anonymized. The only criticism I've heard about it a long time ago was that even if you turn it off, it still will collect the data, locally on your machine. Which was a technical matter at the time and may have already changed. KDE people are among the most privacy respecting bunch. Grandparent is spreading FUD (or has been misinformed as result of FUD). In a world that people are comfortable with Facebook and Google I find it funny that people would have privacy complaints about KDE. Disclaimer: Used to be a minor kde contributor.
sigzero 5y ago
It's been in there for a least 2 years. A quick Google search leads me to no big rants about it. shrug

ChuckNorris89 5y ago

This is the first time I'm hearing about this. Do you have a source?

nick__m 5y ago
i had the api reference open as i was trying to automate something in kwin... https://api.kde.org/frameworks/kuserfeedback/html/index.html https://api.kde.org/frameworks/kuserfeedback/html/index.html https://community.kde.org/Policies/Telemetry_Policy https://community.kde.org/Policies/Telemetry_Policy
- yaantc 5y ago
  Which indicates it's opt-in so off by default. Also there's a pretty clear (IMHO) configuration in the settings that states what is send based on the level you select. So what's the problem? It's only a way to contribute usage feedback if and only as much as you want to.
  - emilsedgh 5y ago
    This is correct. KDE's user feedback collection is: * Opt-in. * Has several different levels of sharing and pretty clear about what is being shared. * Even at the most relaxed level, it's fully anonymized. The only criticism I've heard about it a long time ago was that even if you turn it off, it still will collect the data, locally on your machine. Which was a technical matter at the time and may have already changed. KDE people are among the most privacy respecting bunch. Grandparent is spreading FUD (or has been misinformed as result of FUD). In a world that people are comfortable with Facebook and Google I find it funny that people would have privacy complaints about KDE. Disclaimer: Used to be a minor kde contributor.

sigzero 5y ago

It's been in there for a least 2 years. A quick Google search leads me to no big rants about it. shrug