Ok, I get your point. You need the extra debugging information.
Now, here's my concern. I DO NOT want compromises. I DO NOT want to balance anything. I DO NOT want this telemetry crud on my browser spewing out my browsing history to anyone, no matter how anonymous you people claim it will be.
I just want a decent web browser.
What are my options? "Mozilla's way or the highway"? Redirect evil.telemetry.things.mozilla.org to /dev/null? Go back to elinks?
Or will there be a "disable this piece of crap utterly and completely" button somewhere not hidden under an URL? Or even better, a compile flag?
There'll be an opt-out, just as there always has. That's not what's being discussed here. The question is whether to allow these stats to be collected as an opt-out vs opt-in.
Before you send any telemetry get informed consent by presenting the user a dialog enumerating everything that you are sending and I'd be fine with opt-out otherwise this is a dark pattern and you are getting on my shit list.
Now, here's my concern. I DO NOT want compromises. I DO NOT want to balance anything. I DO NOT want this telemetry crud on my browser spewing out my browsing history to anyone, no matter how anonymous you people claim it will be.
I just want a decent web browser.
What are my options? "Mozilla's way or the highway"? Redirect evil.telemetry.things.mozilla.org to /dev/null? Go back to elinks?
Or will there be a "disable this piece of crap utterly and completely" button somewhere not hidden under an URL? Or even better, a compile flag?
Edit: spelling...