I run Gentoo, which has a telemetry use flag. This will enable telemetry for a number of packages.

I hate telemetry on non-FOSS software like Windows, but is there real harm in doing it with FOSS software? I like to think I’d be helping the devs create better software.

https://packages.gentoo.org/useflags/telemetry

  • chi-chan~English
    43•1 year ago

    Telemetry, *supposed to be* only sending data that would benefit the user, by helping the developers to understand what the users really need.

    Microsoft and Apple abused that term and it became just ‘data collection’. FOSS telemetry shouldn’t, and usually - hopefully - wouldn’t collect unnecessary data, to sell it back as adverts.

    So if you trust <project-name>, I don’t see why not to enable it. It just helps the devs, and you too, at the end.