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Re:Kite launches line-of-code completions, goes cloudless, s... by Improvotter on Monday January 28, 2019 @04:54PM (#19021460)
> You can opt-out of sending these analytics by changing a Kite setting (https://help.kite.com/article/79-opting-out-of-usage-metrics).

Shouldn't this be opt-in according to GDPR?

> * Line-of-Code Completions - Kite's completions engine can now predict several tokens of code at a time, powered by the most sophisticated AI code models available.

Won't this result into copy-paste-like functionality of StackOverflow? This seems great for small projects, but doesn't look useful at for anything else it seems. I'm skeptical that Kite provides anything of value compared to all of the other tools I have.

The website has mentioned that other languages "are coming soon", though it has said this since the last Kite scandal. Are these just empty words?

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Re:Kite launches line-of-code completions, goes cloudless, s... by scoot on Monday January 28, 2019 @05:02PM (#19021507)
> Shouldn't this be opt-in according to GDPR?

No, because it isn't personal data.

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Re:Kite launches line-of-code completions, goes cloudless, s... by Improvotter on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @05:18AM (#19025215)
But cookies that save your search queries are personal data and require opt-in? You can consider anything not to be "personal data". I still really want this to be opt-in, not opt-out.
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