Unless I’ve missed something, a manjaro team member said it’s opt in rather than opt out and the user can choose what data they consent to. I really don’t see the problem with that, christ you can’t even access some websites without accepting every cookie under the sun
A rather simplistic interpretation and rendering.
An opt-in scenario was indeed stated, but it was phrased in such a manner as to indicate that’s the way they’re thinking and looking at it at the moment, for C*****'s sake. That’s the point, and a point I specifically indicated in my comment to the specific forum post, in that you in your comment to which I’m replying overlook and disregard without proper thought in forming the basis of your argument. You actually state this in your comment when you say, “Unless I’ve missed something…”, along with “I really don’t see the problem…”. You definitely have missed something and you really don’t see the problem or potential problems.
Besides, just because an aspect of Internet activity is doing this, that or the other, or going in a certain direction, doesn’t mean everything has of necessity to take that direction and be like the common herd of sheep following behind each other like mindless creatures. Being different is often the best way to go in certain situations, but humans don’t generally see this or agree with it as they blindly and emotively concur with the presiding paradigm of thought and action as the only and legitimate way to go.
You attempt to justify your stance by mentioning cookies as though they haven’t in a lot of situations become the proverbial cookie monster. Over time, since the introduction of cookies, of which were meant at the time to be harmless in the context of not abusing the user’s privacy and security and trust, have been surreptitiously abused by numerous entities for other purposes.
In a phrase, you don’t seem to understand the entire scenario that’s unfolding and can potentially unfold in our computer and online life.
The good old procedure of a user manually reporting problems, issues and bugs is the preeminent method. For with humans, as predictable as humans usually are, it rarely remains at a best case scenario when systems go outside of the user sanction. User control is a must in this context. Sadly, to many people never or rarely learn from past mistakes, as history has recorded.
