I allow everything from FOSS that I like, you?

  • DecentM@lemmy.ml
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    I generally feel fine if I can preview the payload and it doesn’t contain too identifiable stuff. Even better if you can redact fields. NewPipe has a simple implementation of this where it just opens up your email client with a pre-filled body.

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    I’m hostile towards telemetry by default because of how much spyware there is in today’s technology. I’ll only allow it if it’s reasonable ( e.g. a GPS getting your location, system diagnostics for software devs ) and it’s consentual.

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      And FairEmail doesn’t seem to have any bugs. Really. I had issues, but Marcel responded and cleared them within an hour.

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        Yea he’s an absolute treasure. I think even if he’d stop updating fairemail, it would take years for anything else to even come close to it.

        The only issue I ever had was not understanding how to activate the pro features on a new device.

        He responded literally within minutes with detailed and easy to understand instructions.

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    Bug reports and error logs. Helps support the development of the software without it feeling like my data is sold for money unnecessarily.

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    Nothing automatic, if it’s a serious issue I’ll replicate on a controlled environment if they need dumps, but usually a bug report with steps to reproduce is sufficient.

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    On KDE Plasma I have “User Feedback” set to “Detailed system information and basic usage statistics”

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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    Almost none. I want all telemetry off by default, and only gets turned on by me when I want it, and with all conditions and content known.

    I like the optional error reports where I can choose just the error report to send.

    Of course all this only for FOSS apps.

  • hoodlem@hoodlem.me
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    Nothing. Unless it’s for a product I exceptionally like (count=1) I just allow bug reports.

  • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net
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    I’ll happily allow telemetry if its an open source piece of software that gives you the option to “preview” what is being sent (and preferably, not automatically, but as a “Here is what we’ve got, does this look good?” thing). I’ll have a look, make sure its nothing confidential, and send it.

    Steam does this with their hardware survey, Fedora does it with its crash reporter system (as did Ubuntu when I used it long ago), and actually macOS was usually pretty good about this too from what I remember (though macOS of course isn’t open source).