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It's a good idea but it seems to me the name will hurt adoption.

Phoning home with telemetry data does not by definition imply tracking.

Yet a project implementing DO_NOT_TRACK is essentially saying that without it, it is tracking users. This isn't particularly attractive for a project that already has some OPT_OUT_TELEMETRY option.

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I think this is closer to the real reason why so many of the maintainers were so combative about it.

Too many of the reasons given by project maintainers seemed like irrelevant, roundabout ways of just saying "No, I don't like it"

> Phoning home with telemetry data does not by definition imply tracking.

As far as the user can know for sure, it does.

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