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I guess the point is opt-in by definition implies a default to false. This is opt-out. Even worse is the existence of allowChangingOptInStatus which completely

I guess the point is opt-in by definition implies a default to false. This is opt-out. Even worse is the existence of allowChangingOptInStatus which completely contradicts the meanings of both opt-in and opt-out.

jraph 4y ago
> allowChangingOptInStatus which completely contradicts the meanings of both opt-in and opt-out I could imagine a sysadmin wanting to prevent users from enabling telemetry from the web interface by setting allowChangingOptInStatus to false and telemetry.optIn to false. That's not bad, especially since allowChangingOptInStatus is true by default. (IIUC)