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kstrauser • yesterday at 8:16 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

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.

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cj • yesterday at 8:30 PM

> 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.

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