MDD - Opt-in vs Opt-out

[romangg]

We’re currently testing a new open-source tool for Manjaro, that will help us with the development of Manjaro. It’s called MDD and it collects some anonymous and impersonal statistics about Manjaro systems.

You can check out the former development thread where some people posted their results to see what would be sent.

We present the data for the community in aggregated form here.

There has been some discussion about the method of opt-in vs opt-out. So I believe the best way to settle it is by giving everybody a voice on it.

What do you want?

• I want data sharing to be enabled by default, but I can easily disable it (opt-out)
• I want to manually enable data sharing via some checkbox in a UI app (opt-in)
• I don’t really care
• I don’t use Manjaro

MDD - Opt-in vs Opt-out

Thanks everybody for voting and the important discussion. I was quite overwhelmed by all the feedback we received but I read everything. I believe there is a lot of unfounded doubt and fear about what telemetry data we would collect and how that would impact users. For example some people think it might digitally fingerprint them individually as users, while this is not possible through the impersonal data we would collect. Other people just hear “telemetry” and by principle are against it, whi…