I’m morally opposed to the notion of optimizing the opt-out mechanism. I want a standardized opt-in mechanism, like:

  export ALLOW_TRACKING=telemetry,crash_dumps

and the absence of such a setting means “fuck off, don’t spy on me”. It’s not my responsibility to turn off apps wanting to track me. It’s their responsibility to get me to authorize their specific flavor of tracking.

▲ cj 7 hours ago | parent [-]

> It’s their responsibility to get me to authorize their specific flavor of tracking.

And they do by burying it in the user agreement you probably agreed to.

Like it or not, it is your responsibility. I agree it shouldn’t be, but let’s be realistic.

	▲	msla 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Then it's my responsibility to feed them fake data. They didn't opt out of my data, after all.