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Counterpoint: Syncthing's telemetry is strictly opt-in, and > 100,000 people have opted in. It's possible to collect useful data in a way that also respects you
by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
Counterpoint: Syncthing's telemetry is strictly opt-in, and > 100,000 people have opted in. It's possible to collect useful data in a way that also respects your users. Many projects do so. Firefox just chooses not to.
https://data.syncthing.net/ https://data.syncthing.net/
- ranger_danger 2y agoInteresting... I wonder how many other projects have had similar success, this is the first time I've heard about an opt-in number that large. I'd be interested to know what their UX for it is and if they did any research on it.
- account42 2y agoAnother example is Debian popcon [0] with over 234k opt-in users. [0] https://popcon.debian.org/ https://popcon.debian.org/