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KDE says there's no issue. Plasma since 5.18 comes with telemetry. Just try to remove the packages related to telemetry in KDE ( don't remember off the top of m
by ananiochita 4y ago
KDE says there's no issue. Plasma since 5.18 comes with telemetry. Just try to remove the packages related to telemetry in KDE ( don't remember off the top of my head the exact names ) and the whole DE is dismantled, they're mandatory.
There's only the option in settings to opt-in or out, but you accept this being non-removable or use something else -- clearly not GNOME, which by the looks of it is going down the same path.
Edit : https://community.kde.org/Telemetry_Use https://community.kde.org/Telemetry_Use
- pabs3 4y agoAll of those seem opt-in, which is fine for most people. Looking in Debian, I see qml-module-org-kde-userfeedback, which plasma-workspace depends on, so it indeed cannot be removed easily. It is possible to remove however, by using equivs to create a package that pretends to provide qml-module-org-kde-userfeedback. Probably the depends on qml-module-org-kde-userfeedback should be relaxed to recommends, I encourage you to do that for the distro that you use. Edit: the KDE telemetry policy seems eminently reasonable: https://community.kde.org/Policies/Telemetry_Policy https://community.kde.org/Policies/Telemetry_Policy
- ananiochita 4y agoWell, I don't have an issue with the telemetry policy per se, but I do with the fact that Plasma depends on it being there, even if not used. That's not reasonable to me ( and others -- you can find various levels of protest since this was baked in, from quiet annoyance to full paranoid hysteria ) but then I don't use KDE much these days. I don't like GNOME or others starting to take that route as well.