Fedora considers "privacy-preserving" telemetry

The Fedora project is considering aFedora40 change proposal to add limited, opt-out telemetry to theworkstation edition. The proposal is detailed; it is clear that thedevelopers involved understand that this will be a hard sell in thatcommunity.

We believe an open source community can ethically collect limitedaggregate data on how its software is used without involving bigdata companies or building creepy tracking profiles that are not inthe best interests of users. Users will have the option to disabledata upload before any data is sent for the first time. Our servicewill be operated by Fedora on Fedora infrastructure, and will notdepend on Google Analytics or any other controversial third-partyservices. And in contrast to proprietary software operatingsystems, you can redirect the data collection to your own privatemetrics server instead of Fedora's to see precisely what data isbeing collected from you, because the server components are opensource too.