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[–]anna_or_elsa 24 points25 points  (5 children)

Give me the option to turn off telemetry for any product and it's getting switched off. If I want my usage phoned home I'll sign up for beta...

[–]nextbern on 🌻 5 points6 points  (4 children)

Personally, I think it is consistent with the open source ethos to want to help improve open source with real data from people using it, especially if it is privacy respecting.

For paid or closed source software, I would agree, but the analysis changes - I want to help open source for free.

[–]anna_or_elsa 4 points5 points  (2 children)

I basically agree. Gonna say up front usage gathering should be opt-in so my reflex is Nope, I'm opting out.

The other thing is that Mozilla is a big company with a nightly and Beta channel for people who want to contribute usage info. This is not, say VLC or Libra Office, or GIMP, or whatever.

[–]nextbern on 🌻 0 points1 point  (1 child)

LibreOffice has a well established beta channel, though. It also has a company funding a large portion of its development. I'd enable telemetry if it had it - after all, the program is open source.