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Comment by Sir_Cmpwn | Hacker News Reader

That may be the case, but it's still not acceptable in my opinion. Calling home to fetch a new database of malicious hosts and such is fine, but calling home for analytics is not okay. At the very least, clearly disclose it and make it easy to opt out.

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> but calling home for analytics is not okay

It's like you didn't even read what was written.

Out of curiosity, do you have any security concerns about calling home for analytic or is it just you would prefer the privacy of not having your usage tracked?

If it's opt-in, I enable it. If it's opt-out, I disable it.

For me it's a matter of principle. That people politely ask is both an indication of trustworthiness and how I prefer things to be, so I try to help by enabling it.

It also depends on the way they ask. Mozilla Firefox for Android tells me that I should choose what I share, enabling crash reports and disabling telemetry by default. Even though the crash report is technically opt-out, they ask me in clear terms. I like that.

It's mostly privacy concerns, but also the fact that you use this software at all can disclose some interesting information to eavesdropping attackers. Most worrisome is just that it's not very well disclosed - most users just don't know it's happening, and it's not very well justified.

How can you say "most users don't know it's happening" when it's the first thing you see in the graph when you load the application?

We got your initial point..

I think you're just grinding metal at this point.. Ease down.. ease down...

I don't see anywhere that it discloses what is being sent, just that it's sending something. Did I miss something?

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