Yet there are many successful projects that don’t collect this information. So it’s not crucial for them but is crucial for you.

I think the challenge I have is that since you’re getting IP address that will be an opportunity to abuse. And there seems to be some rule that any data that can be misused will eventually be misused.

Since you’re not willing to make it opt-in, I think perhaps the only other way would be to support an automated distro that doesn’t include it so users are at least able to easily choose a version.

I admire you for responding to this thread and me as it’s definitely not easy. I just feel like one of the main benefits of open source is its alignment with user benefits so it’s discouraging when an open source project chooses code that users don’t want.