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Console Do Not Track
A proposed unified standard for opting out of telemetry for TUI/console apps.
Gatsby has
GATSBY_TELEMETRY_DISABLED. Homebrew hasHOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS. Syncthing hasSTNOUPGRADE, a config file setting for disabling crash reporting, and a GUI prompt for usage reporting. Google Cloud SDK CLI tools hasgcloud config set disable_usage_reporting true. .NET Core hasDOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT. Netlify’s CLI hasnetlify --telemetry-disable. The AWS Serverless Application Model CLI hasSAM_CLI_TELEMETRY=0. The Microsoft Azure CLI hasAZURE_CORE_COLLECT_TELEMETRY=0. You get the idea.This is a proposal for a single, standard environment variable that plainly and unambiguously expresses LACK OF CONSENT by a user of that software to any of the following:
- ad tracking
- usage reporting, anonymous or not
- automatic update phone-home
- crash reporting
- non-essential-to-functionality requests of any kind to the creator of the software or other tracking services
We just want local software, and by providing it to us you are not entitled to our usage, our crashes, or our IP addresses.
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AstonJ
This really should be added to GDPR laws - where it is off by default and any software or tool has to ask specifically if they can track in any shape or form.
Anyway, for those wanting the homebrew command:
export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1
dimitarvp
Have we learned nothing from history?
DNT ended up being used as an additional vector for tracking! 
Because that’s one more header that your browser sends so it automatically becomes one more tracking data point.
Opt-out mechanics for personal info leaks will NEVER work. If you don’t trust a program, run it from inside a container where you have strictly approved network connections to the minimum amount of network hosts that the program needs in order to be able to do its job.
dimitarvp
Firefox integrated Pocket inside of it despite its community kicking and screaming (and Pocket having very sketchy privacy agreement) so truthfully, Mozilla have lost my vote of confidence a while ago.
Plus their main source of income – and I mean by a huge margin – is Google.
How privacy-friendly are they, like really how much?
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