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Privacy matters, no matter what layer of the tech stack we are talking about. The developer is not legally required to build an on/off switch for telemetry in m
by sholladay 4y ago
Privacy matters, no matter what layer of the tech stack we are talking about. The developer is not legally required to build an on/off switch for telemetry in most jurisdictions, but they should anyway. It’s the right thing to do. It could be a switch for the whole stack or you could provide more granular options.
Personally, I like to implement a “Report a bug” button which sends detailed telemetry when it really matters. To keep an eye on more general usage data, I use Cloudflare Web Analytics. It’s easy to build a toggle for analytics. Personally, I find that more than sufficient, especially when combined with traditional user studies.
Having the backend respect the toggle too wouldn’t be that hard.
https://www.cloudflare.com/web-analytics/ https://www.cloudflare.com/web-analytics/