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The answer for me is a hard no, but I'm curious what others think. The justification often used is that it's the only way to "make the product better". That's n
by bluefishinit 3y ago
The answer for me is a hard no, but I'm curious what others think. The justification often used is that it's the only way to "make the product better". That's not been my experience as either a developer or user. My favorite tools are opinionated and created by people with a desire to solve a problem and good UX skills (think git, vim...). My least favorite tools are corporate software that was obviously built and designed by committee.
- LinuxBender 3y agoThis could be a good use of HN's polling system [1]. To answer your question I would not and if required to use it I would make a serious attempt to block or spoof it make it think it's sending data to the right place. [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
- rolph 3y agoif i was bored, i would lift the telemetry monster out, and subvert it to send spoofs.
- Maro 3y agoYou also don't use anything in the Google ecosystem, or Facebook, or any online apps? Those all have telemetry..
- bluefishinit 3y agoI use them but I would count them as some of the worst products I'm forced to interact with.