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Re:telemetry.optIn defaults to true by jraph on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @02:55AM (#34321810)
> At least they choose to let us opt out easily, no?

Everybody does. Even MS and Google tools. I would say it's the bare minimum.

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Re:telemetry.optIn defaults to true by vladvasiliu on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @04:09AM (#34322233)
IIRC you can't opt out completely from sending telemetry in Windows. Your choices are "basic" and "full", or something similar.
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Re:telemetry.optIn defaults to true by jraph on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @04:35AM (#34322402)
Ah, right, hadn't thought of Windows, I was thinking about dotnet and other MS (open source) cli stuff I read about.
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Re:telemetry.optIn defaults to true by CodesInChaos on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:38AM (#34325475)
Opt out via environment variables (like dotnet requires) is hardly "easy" and it's quite fragile.
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