Fedora considers “privacy-preserving” telemetry

Re:Fedora considers “privacy-preserving” telemetry by mhitza on Friday July 07, 2023 @08:56AM (#36631005)

You're not wrong. While they do not have yet a list of metrics they'd like to collect (from their initial mailinglist post [1]), it's stated as an idea in there

> We also want to know how frequently panels in gnome-control-center are visited to determine which panels could be consolidated or removed, because there are other settings we want to add, but our usability research indicates that the current high quantity of settings panels already makes it difficult for users to find commonly-used settings.

Personally I'd like to see more transparency in their usability research, because GNOME is best know for removing features, which is what they'd like to do this time around as well.

[1]: https://lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/CAJqbrbeOZrHvYjvMCc=qGZD_VXB...

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Re:Fedora considers “privacy-preserving” telemetry by techwizrd on Friday July 07, 2023 @10:53AM (#36632638)

I agree that the usability research should be transparent and data-driven. As a statistician, I'd rather have something I can actually critique instead of "we just didn't think it was user-friendly."

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Re:Fedora considers “privacy-preserving” telemetry by coffeeling on Friday July 07, 2023 @12:10PM (#36633883)

Counterpoint: Steve Jobs

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Re:Fedora considers “privacy-preserving” telemetry by musicale on Monday July 10, 2023 @02:19AM (#36662757)

Even post-Jobs Apple is opt-in for telemetry or crash reports.

Apple also does a lot of (non-anonymous) user testing, which can give very detailed feedback.

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