Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
> That said, it is not sufficient to reject adding Fedora downstream
> spyware. Fedora also needs a policy that upstream "telemetry" spyware is
> not allowed and needs to be disabled at compile time or patched out. We
> have several packaged applications wanting to "phone home" for this kind
> of "anonymized usage statistics". This should not be allowed in a
> privacy-concious distribution.

PS (sorry, just read this right now): The most recent offender:
https://gladtech.social/@cuchaz/112775302929069283

(This is not the first anti-user misfeature Firefox has been implementing, 
but this one is particularly bad.)

        Kevin Kofler

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