I allow everything from FOSS that I like, you?
I’ll happily allow telemetry if its an open source piece of software that gives you the option to “preview” what is being sent (and preferably, not automatically, but as a “Here is what we’ve got, does this look good?” thing). I’ll have a look, make sure its nothing confidential, and send it.
Steam does this with their hardware survey, Fedora does it with its crash reporter system (as did Ubuntu when I used it long ago), and actually macOS was usually pretty good about this too from what I remember (though macOS of course isn’t open source).
I let FOSS apps collect crash reports and the like. Proprietary stuff though, no chance.
Bug reports and error logs. Helps support the development of the software without it feeling like my data is sold for money unnecessarily.
Manual bug reporting by manual log selection.
Yea he’s an absolute treasure. I think even if he’d stop updating fairemail, it would take years for anything else to even come close to it.
The only issue I ever had was not understanding how to activate the pro features on a new device.
He responded literally within minutes with detailed and easy to understand instructions.
I generally feel fine if I can preview the payload and it doesn’t contain too identifiable stuff. Even better if you can redact fields. NewPipe has a simple implementation of this where it just opens up your email client with a pre-filled body.
Nothing automatic, if it’s a serious issue I’ll replicate on a controlled environment if they need dumps, but usually a bug report with steps to reproduce is sufficient.
I’m hostile towards telemetry by default because of how much spyware there is in today’s technology. I’ll only allow it if it’s reasonable ( e.g. a GPS getting your location, system diagnostics for software devs ) and it’s consentual.
GPS is “passive”. It’s basically (i’m oversimplifying) sitting there listening to the satellites each broadcasting info, then triangulates itself based on the passive receipt of that data.
i think they are referencing map apps vs gps as a technology
Hmm… possible… fuck those though. Just buy a Garmin.
Do those have good traffic data? Because some people still need that.
Yeah, there’s a receiver built into the charger.
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I always turn on KDE telemetry since it doesnt collect any identifiable info.
But honestly, privacy is not the same as anonymity. I would also turn on fedoras proposed telemetry if the draft bill gets approved.
Absolutely none right now, but I’m open to change that policy for select software as I get more used to the FOSS ecosystem.
Nothing. Unless it’s for a product I exceptionally like (count=1) I just allow bug reports.
Almost none. I want all telemetry off by default, and only gets turned on by me when I want it, and with all conditions and content known.
I like the optional error reports where I can choose just the error report to send.
Of course all this only for FOSS apps.
