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In a world where almost all software companies keep pushing telemetry behind our backs, trying to grab as much information about us as they can. It's nice to see a project like Gnome doing the right thing making telemetry fully voluntary and anonymising the data completely.

We understand that software projects need telemetry to improve, but that's no excuse to sneakily steal information about us.

Well done Gnome!

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I appreciate that about VLC too, with its famous "Let VLC connect to the Internet?" first-run dialog.

Element I _think_ is also opt-in.

Also, for whoever is reading and might need to hear it, "Opted in by default" is called "opt-out".

That dialog is nice in intention but they should really simplify it.

<Button: Skip background network access ->

<Button: Use VLC with network access for media metadata ->

Eh. I'm reminded of Chris Rock's bit on "I take care of my kids!" Yeah, that's what you're supposed to do.

How about also playing nice in return when it comes to the actual product?

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