Their UI has changed a lot in recent years, maybe this will enable them to make more informed design decisions so that one day grandparents stop getting lost in their horrible menus.
The key word there is "anonymized". What is the risk of the collected data accidentally being less anonymous than intended? What is the risk of accidentally collecting more data than intended? Microsoft has already had both types of accident [1][2], so I think it's fair to assume a risk close to 100% over time.
Even if users opt out, what is the risk of the opt-out mechanism at some point containing a bug that causes it to fail? Or the risk of the user at some point failing to properly configure the opt-out mechanism?
Is the company going to put as much effort into minimizing these risks as the end user would like? Is anonymization of telemetry going to be the top priority for the company?
[1] https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/6145#issuecomment-22010...
I don't, so I'm never upgrading to 1Password 8. The telemetry news only validates my decision. What I consider important in a security product and what AgileBits considers important diverged a while ago and that's ok I guess.
We shall not even get started on their extension losing its mind for no good reason. Still better than Bitwarden, and they should thank their lucky stars for it or I'd take my money elsewhere
I strongly disagree with this and think much less of companies who do it that way. That said, that battle is already lost anyway.
It's not like this is telemetry in some open source thing for nefarious reasons. It's literally for their customers. They already know who you are, it's not like they're using this for targeted ads.
This is said by every company that does telemetry.
Prove it. Right, you can't, because once telemetry runs you have no insight or control over what happens with the data. And trust is definitely not an option anymore after all that happened over the years.
That is more of a statement about the detestability of telemetry as a concept than anything else.
https://www.centenecenter.wustl.edu/by-the-power-of-default-...
No it isn't implied.
No, it's not. "Consent" requires being informed first.
Willful, informed, enthusiastic consent is what we're after.
It absolutely isn’t.
What makes them different?
1Password has not yet had that, they've made some missteps, but have handled it relatively well (based on my experience, and that I still use them).
tl;dr If we roll this out to customers, we'll be asking for consent, and won't be collecting telemetry data unless we have it.
-Ben, 1Password