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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by II2II on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @08:32AM (#27747570)
Some app developers are going to be better at respecting privacy than Google, while some are going to be worse. The problem arises when you have to assess each one: people either won't or run the risk of relying upon misinformation.
Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by Nextgrid on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @08:46AM (#27747732)
The kind of analytics data a typical telemetry system will collect is pretty benign in isolation. It only becomes a risk when it's in the hand of an adversary with a global view of the internet, such as Google, Facebook or large-scale analytics providers such as Mixpanel (as their libraries are integrated everywhere and they have a ton of traffic they can use to correlate and deanonymize users).