Just in the consideration phase, but makes you wonder the timing after the Red Hat move. Maybe alright if they do it the KDE way of needing to manually opt in and not like Cononical’s painful way of manually having to opt out. Or Firefox’s needing to manually opt out though easy.

  •  aka_oscar   ( @aka_oscar@beehaw.org ) 
    3•1 year ago

    Fedora is looking at using the Endless OS metrics system for the collection of usage metrics.

    This previously shared article showcases the details of Endless OS metrics, for those who were wondering.

    Users will have the option to disable data upload before any data is sent for the first time […] and will not depend on Google Analytics or any other controversial third-party services.

    While its still just a proposal, there is a lot of focus in protecting the privacy of their users. I’m glad they have those considerations in mind, and I hope it stays that way.

    I recommend most people to read the devel list thread in order to better form an opinion on the topic.