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Telemetry Is Not Your Enemy
- raxxorraxor 4y agoI believe telemetry can also provide false impressions. Sometimes the conclusions that are drawn by how often a feature is used can be highly misleading. In any case it needs to be optional. Don't be Windows here. This is what gives telemetry a bad name and it deserves the bad reputation. Of course it can be useful, but opt-in and complete anonymization should be a minimal requirement. If that is given it can be crucial to identify more arcane software bugs and can indeed improve a software. I don't think it is a necessity though and should never fall into the hands of sales managers.
- JohnFen 4y agoTelemetry, of any sort, is spying and evil when it is happening without the informed consent of the user. Period. I'm heavily opposed to spying -- but even so, I do volunteer telemetry data when asked right. I'm not opposed to letting software manufacturers know about the environments the software runs in. I am opposed to them extracting that data from me without getting my consent, though, which seems to be how it's mostly done. But the advertising industry can go pound sand. I consider them a malevolent force and want to give them as little data (or money) as possible.
- marssaxman 4y agoI don't care. It's my machine, not yours.
- fbdab103 4y agoThe Go case would be more compelling if the maintainers gave the impression that they listened to the community. Loudly requested features (dependency management, monatomic time, etc) were ignored because Go knows best.