The Importance of Opt-in Telemetry

One of the concerns that we have, there's definitely probably going to end up being the blocker is whether it's opt-in or opt-out. The guy that proposed the telemetry for fedora basically said if we cannot do opt-out, then there's no point even doing it. Opt-in telemetry brings in the same amount of useful data as forums and issues. Just people who don't care will and those aren't a good sample. Especially in the Linux world where the whole idea of telemetry is very, very touchy.

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