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I think this is great, they are pretty upfront with what they are collecting and why they need that

What's with all these negative comments here? Does any other os give you so much information about what is going on behind the scene?

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It's just duplicitous corporatespeak. They do whatever they want, ignoring privacy entirely, for years, and then claim to have a "continuing commitment". They don't care about privacy, they just care that they got flak in the press about privacy so they're trying to backpedal about it.

Seriously? Linux and BSD, for example, give you complete control over all the information harvested from you.

Most of the time. Do you remember Ubuntu amazon search? Their geolocation database?

Yeah, one distribution tried this a few years back, got grilled to a char by the community for it, and swiftly trashed the idea. This is nothing like Microsoft turning Windows into one giant dark pattern and trying to convince the world that it's progress while showing no signs of backing down despite the overwhelming backlash.

Ubuntu's Amazon integration was a failed experiment in an ecosystem with literally hundreds of other players to choose from while Microsoft's Windows telemetry is an inescapable dogma forced upon all Windows users.

Ubuntu is still doing some questionable things.

At least on 16.04 gvfs-http would sometimes create hundreds of connections to the mothership even with all privacy settings maxed out.

I'm with you. Its objectively a move in the right direction. is it far enough? maybe not. Seems shitty to chastise a company for moving toward better privacy and transparency while listening to customer feedback. Seems like "a damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenario.

They don't allow users to opt-out of telemetry. That is what I want, and nothing less will satisfy me.

The title is "our continuing commitment to privacy". You have to start something to continue it.

Are they? From reading it I'm not certain exactly what Basic level reports - seems like a lot.

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