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Tried it from source. I had to install the following with pip3:

  - yappi
  - pydantic
  - Faker
  - sentry-sdk

Its search works. Gives a nice nostalgic feeling of old p2p software. Definitely should be more popular.

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Any kind of telemetry service inside of a program purporting to care about centralised avenues of control should be an indicator to never ever use it. Either the developers don't understand what they're talking about or they are disingenuous. It doesn't really matter to the end user, both will mean that your use-case is not being served :)

I am curious what type of data they're sending to sentry?

Could be some leakage there, don't think sentry does PII scrubbing of any kind either iirc.

It tries to scrub passwords and secret keys based on some text filters by default, but it can be configured to scrub arbitrary data (via a hook in the sdk).

The use of sentry is a huge red flag here...

Crashes are optionally reported to Github for fixing. What could we use instead of Sentry to understand bugs and causes?

  - Tribler team

Define "optionally", please.

Crash reporter uses sentry. We don't want to know anything else about our users. When Tribler crashes the core dump (e.g. Python TraceBack) can be inserted as a Github issue, using Sentry. Requires the user to opt-in by clicking "send" on crash reporter.

A language that attempts to move detection of logic errors to compile-time instead of run-time. :-)

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