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As a developer that has has countless users spew bile at me for being unable to fix "it didn't save properly"...I'm quite split on the debate of telemetry.

• pacifika 3y ago
  Perhaps allow a telemetry session from the help menu in that case
  • Incipient 3y ago
    No one actively goes in to enable telemetry. In the tech space, possibly. Dealing with people that don't know what a save icon is? They're not even capable of understanding telemetry let alone provide informed consent. All the user knows is their button doesn't work, and they're angry.
    • pacifika 3y ago
      Ah I meant you could instruct them via support to run it with telemetry enabled so you can capture more data.
      • Incipient 3y ago
        But what's the difference? I don't see how me telling them to turn on telemetry, which they have no possible way to provide informed consent, is any different? Just feels like high-ideals to make devs feel better. If people can't provide informed consent the dev must make the choice for them. Either do it or don't. Giving them the choice is almost more malicious. Anyway. All this telemetry topic just feels poorly considered as a whole. Quite "hur dur telemetry bad". I've been on the other side is all.