What kind of Telemetry do you allow?
What kind of Telemetry do you allow?
I allow everything from FOSS that I like, you?
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Manual bug reporting by manual log selection.
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And FairEmail doesn't seem to have any bugs. Really. I had issues, but Marcel responded and cleared them within an hour.
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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.
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If only there was this option on more software!
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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.
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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.
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Bug reports and error logs. Helps support the development of the software without it feeling like my data is sold for money unnecessarily.
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Zero. I don't cotton to my devices phoning home ever.
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So, if an application crashes on your device, you're okay with it never getting fixed because the developer has no idea it's a problem?
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I love how you're implying a bug will never get fixed because I, of all people, am not using telemetry. If it's bugging you so much that's when you open up a ticket on their issue tracker.
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Just tell them.
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Honestly? Yeah, that would be an okay tradeoff. If it's not, I'd go file an issue with steps to reproduce it like I'd be expected to anyways.
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I assume some other dumbass will leave telemetry on
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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.
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On KDE Plasma I have "User Feedback" set to "Detailed system information and basic usage statistics"
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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.
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None. If I encounter a bug in something I care about, I'll report it myself.
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I let FOSS apps collect crash reports and the like. Proprietary stuff though, no chance.
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Nothing. Unless it’s for a product I exceptionally like (count=1) I just allow bug reports.
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I'm paranoid as shit so nothing
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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).
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None. I prefer reporting an issue manually.
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Absolutely none right now, but I'm open to change that policy for select software as I get more used to the FOSS ecosystem.
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