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a proposal to add opt-out telemetry in fedora is being discussed on fedora forums
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this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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why? just don't ruin my beloved fedora please, if telemetry exists it should be opt in, not opt out
I totally agree. It's a shame, Fedora really is an awesome distro. Adding telemetry was to be expected since IBM is the parent company of Red hat and almost anything IBM touches turns to crap.
yeah might be time to distro hop i guess
Fedora is what finally got me to stop distro hopping 2-3 years ago. :(
Same. It would be a real shame if we need to jump ship.
fedora is my first experience with linux and i thought i made a good choice and i never had to mess around anymore but now i am seriously considering it :/
This. I always opt in BECAUSE it's opt in. Ask and ye shall receive and all that; but if you're gonna try to force my hand, well...no, I don't think I will.
Why would you prefer an IBM maintained distro?
Who said anything about "preference" to an IBM distro? I used Linux mint, Ubuntu, manjaro, arch, opensuse in the past, so there's definitely no preference to IBM.
No, this is not "ruining your beautiful Fedora", this is a proposal that both us users and the developers can pitch in to develop telemtry in a way that does not abuse its users.
And about the opt-in/opt-out nature of it, feel free to join the follow-up discussion about it on the forum:
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/opt-in-opt-out-a-breakout-topic-for-the-f40-change-request-on-privacy-preserving-telemetry-for-fedora-workstation/85395
i get the importance of telemetry and maybe i worded my inital reply a bit harshly. but you probably will agree that this really does not paint a good picture of red hat with the whole rhel controversy as well
Highly disagree. Although I'm not content with RH's decisions during the last few months (especially when it comes to their layoffs), this one shouldn't even be a controversy at all. It's just a proposal for a community project. There will be no RedHat threats or higher-up decisions without the consent of the community. That's the main difference between Fedora (which does have deep ties with RedHat but is through and through a community project) and RedHat (the downstream entreprise).