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I don't have a problem with telemetry, provided it is opt-in.



This makes telemetry effectively useless for developers though, unless a big intrusive "Click here to opt in" button is presented during startup. Nobody is going to enable it on their own accord.


I find your comment disturbing because I feel that "Opt-Out" features have become a real problem. The reasons for setting something as opt-out are often self-serving and, even when not, it is still an affront to informed consent (since as we all know that most people will take the defaults).


Last time I installed Firefox (a month or two ago) it in fact did pop-up a button asking if you wanted to send telemetry back to Mozilla.




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