Telemetry is enabled by default
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Hello,
I just noticed that the Minecraft server app has telemetry enabled by default and no information about this in the docs. What's Cloudrons general procedure about telemetry? I found some apps where it's enabled by default, some where it isn't and it feels just mixed.
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snooper-enabled: true.Best Regards,
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@warg said in Telemetry is enabled by default:
I found some apps where it's enabled by default, some where it isn't and it feels just mixed.
That’s quite specific.
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Sure but I think it's not that hard to understand why it's this less specific: If you find something by chance (and this isn't the first thign I notice during the short time I use Cloudron), you don't have time to report it always. Furthermore if it's unclear what the policy of Cloudron is on this, you don't create a list as well and at the moment I found no clear statement or reliable information on whether this is intended or not by Cloudron. Beside of that, if I'm not mistaken, I also reported it for one or two apps already. It's more like a general question on how Cloudron deals with this topic to be aware of whether it's a bug or a feature.
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@warg said in Telemetry is enabled by default:
What's Cloudrons general procedure about telemetry?
There is no policy as such. When/If someone reports it, we add the setting to the package. In some situations like NocoDB, we had the authors reach out to us to keep telemetry enabled by default. There are also apps which uses Google fonts, javascript, css etc from a CDN (which is another way to collect metrics/usage).
My personal stance is telemetry should be disabled by default. The reality is most users opt out of it and so many apps have started enabling them by default. Cloudron also used to have telemetry many years ago but we made a conscious decision to remove the code entirely. We are better for it, no user data to worry about!
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I have pushed a new release with telemetry flag off. For existing installations, they have to disable it by editing the properties file.
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@girish said in Telemetry is enabled by default:
My personal stance is telemetry should be disabled by default.
Thanks for changing this and I totally agree with that. That's my opinion as well. Actually I see a problem that can't be even solved without disabled by default: When you install an app, it is started automatically and thus on the first start-up there's already a transfer of data to third-parties. You can't prevent this at all right now (at least I don't see how because there is no "install but don't boot it yet" option). So disabling it everywhere by default is a must have for compliance reasons.
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