Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environment variable

Re:Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environmen... by BurningFrog on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @09:39AM (#27748350)

> Telemetry should always be opt-in. Yes, that means vendors will get much less data. It's on them to deal with it.

This approach leads to fewer vendors.

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Re:Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environmen... by GekkePrutser on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @10:09AM (#27748794)

Not if users get something in return. Like with the windows insider program. Opt in to get betas and provide automated feedback. If MS turned off telemetry for regular users they'd be doing a great job.

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Re:Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environmen... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @09:44AM (#27748415)

How? And even if, would that be a bad thing?

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Re:Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environmen... by BurningFrog on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @12:56PM (#27751186)

Telemetry data is valuable. Vendors will get less of it, and so there will be less value in being a vendor.

Not sure why this is not obvious?

> would that be a bad thing?

Not saying it would be.

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Re:Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environmen... by amelius on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @09:41AM (#27748376)

Or users getting paid for their data.

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Re:Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environmen... by jefftk on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @01:16PM (#27751485)

Are you imagining a world in which volunteer developers of open source CLI apps pay users for the privilege of receiving crash reports?

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