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		tsujp on July 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard env... Would this have scope to be added to the XDG Desktop spec, at least on POSIX systems? Except of course, changed to opt-in: XDG_TELEMETRY_ON I'd never set it but at least it be an option for some.

sneak on July 6, 2021 [–]

Developers who ship spyware are even less likely to switch to an opt-in model than they are to support a unified system that makes it easy to opt-out.

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