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It definitely can be interpreted to mean that the telemetry is opt-in, or that it is opt-out. (“Opt-in by default” is a double positive, a less common sibling
by K0balt 3y ago
It definitely can be interpreted to mean that the telemetry is opt-in, or that it is opt-out.
(“Opt-in by default” is a double positive, a less common sibling of the dreaded double negative)
- Keirmot 3y agoCorrect me if I’m wrong, but isn’t a double positive just a positive while a double negative is a positive? Opt-in by default: you are in You can’t not select opt-in: you are in
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- Y_Y 3y agoYeah right
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoThat's correct, but it's a relatively new thing. 150 years ago two or more negatives meant an emphatic no. The switch was caused by Frege and contemporaries.
- K0balt 3y agoYeah, this is more complex than a double positive isn’t it. Hmm. “Opt in , by default” would seem to mean you have to opt in, unless some unnamed external condition was met, so normally you would have to choose to participate… which is the opposite of this case , where to NOT participate you must, by default, opt OUT. And if you do not you are automatically committed to participate.