Storybook’s telemetry is opt-out as stated at the top of the page.
This also looks like something that should be posted as a text submission with commentary - simply editorializing a link + title is discouraged in HN.
The title is now "Telemetry" and 90% of the discussions makes no sense anymore.
The policy is "opt out" but you are "opted in" by default.
(“Opt-in by default” is a double positive, a less common sibling of the dreaded double negative)
Opt-in by default: you are in You can’t not select opt-in: you are in
“Opt in , by default” would seem to mean you have to opt in, unless some unnamed external condition was met, so normally you would have to choose to participate… which is the opposite of this case , where to NOT participate you must, by default, opt OUT. And if you do not you are automatically committed to participate.
"Opt-in" and "opt-out" describe what the default is, so adding "by default" doesn't make any sense. If you can choose to go in ("opt-in"), then the default is "out". If you can choose to go out ("opt-out"), then the default is "in".
Some companies appear to be trying to twist this into "The choice is yours, and we have taken the liberty of making that choice on your behalf.".
There are topics dear to every subgroups heart, that the members will claim, surely must be exempt from this. As far as I can tell, the exemptions are mostly arbitrary.
This is essentially about checkboxes. “Enabled by default” would mean tracking is always on, but doesn’t tell you if it can be disabled by the user.
In the realm of privacy choices in software, we then started referring to these as “opt-in” (default off) or “opt-out” (default on) to communicate the default setting + the ability to change it.
Advertising trackers, for example, are mandated by law to be “opt-in” (they pre-select the checkbox for you of course, without submitting, but that’s a whole other story).
In that scenario, the default is to not play soccer. If you want to play, you have to choose it, i.e. opt to play soccer, i.e. "opt in". So the default is that you're "out". Thus, playing soccer is "opt-in".
If people were born into soccer matches and had to actively try to escape, that would be "opt-out". You make a choice (opt) to escape out of the soccer match.
Notice that "opt-in" and "opt-out" describe the inverse of the default value: "opt-in" is the same as "out by default" and "opt-out" the same as "in by default". Mixing these phrases with opposite meanings (e.g. "opt-in by default") creates confusion, perhaps intentionally, about what the default value is.