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Re:Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com by scotth on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @11:24PM (#21394433)
Were people really arguing for removal of telemetry altogether? I would think that many of us are comfortable with aspects of tracking.

For me, the concern was the value of the content. It might as well have been my bank saying they were going to start embedding disqus threads.

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Re:Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com by t0astbread on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @02:21AM (#21395079)
Not everyone wants tracking, even if that means sacrificing software quality. Making it mandatory is never excusable.
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Re:Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com by nidificate on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @10:28AM (#21398112)
It was opt-out, not mandatory.
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Re:Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com by t0astbread on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @12:09PM (#21399237)
Was it? My bad. I thought I read something about GitLab planning to block access to the platform until you accepted the new ToS but maybe I was wrong.

My point still stands though.

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