• not_a_king@beehaw.org
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    1 年前

    i know they’re a company and they need to float, but this should be opt in not opt out

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      Yes but we really should be grateful to have a somewhat mainstream open-source browser with a great ecosystem of extensions and ability to turn off the telemetry. It could’ve been much worse

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        We should really be grateful Google is providing a mainstream opensource browser with a great ecosystem of extensions

        I see no problem with this logic.

        Anti Commercial-AI license

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          Chromium is pretty good too but usually it’s not recommended to support because nobody wants its engine to become an absolute monopoly and make all major websites in the world broken on any other one. Though nobody wants Firefox’s engine to become an absolute monopoly too so it’s nice that Chromium exists

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      Opt-in telemetry is useless telemetry, they make it opt-out because its the only way to get representative numbers

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        Why do you need unwilling representing numbers in the first place? Just ask advanced users on the official forum about what they want to see added. You only really need error logs that are absolutely opt-in