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Re:Transparent Telemetry for Open-Source Projects by taveras on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @11:43AM (#34710680)
I wish there was a standard way of disabling telemetry across software dependencies.

While I leave it turned on for personal projects, several projects at work require disabling it.

I have spent hours auditing through transitive dependencies to turn it off. It should not be this painful.

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Re:Transparent Telemetry for Open-Source Projects by slimsag on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @12:31PM (#34711513)
No reason they couldn't all aim to respect a `TELEMETRY=false` env var, akin to the web's 'do not track' request.
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Re:Transparent Telemetry for Open-Source Projects by ComodoHacker on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @01:13PM (#34712200)
Does anyone really respect DNT though?
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Re:Transparent Telemetry for Open-Source Projects by userbinator on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @03:43PM (#34714763)
A firewall is probably your best bet. Don't allow network traffic originating from anything other than a short whitelist.
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