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It's called "spyware" when you don't trust the collector to be acting in good faith.
by stanleydrew 3y ago
It's called "spyware" when you don't trust the collector to be acting in good faith.
- yamtaddle 3y agoUsed to be that transmitting data about what the user's doing without asking for permission was "spyware" automatically—that it was happening behind your back was already a sign of bad faith. The opt-in thing is fine, but some of us are still stuck, I guess, on older standards for software ethics, and find it entirely unacceptable and alarming that opt-out was ever proposed in the first place, about as bad as if they'd proposed adding an opt-out bitcoin miner to it to help fund the project—it's disturbing they'd consider that OK to even propose.