Why? Defaults are important and the vast majority don't care (assuming correctly selected telemetry data) and the majority can't be bothered to change the default in either case.
Again I am making a huge assumption about correctly selected telemetry data here but opt in mechanisms won't get even 10% of the data they currently do.
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This says that telemetry is the wrong solution then.
Why? Defaults are important and the vast majority don't care (assuming correctly selected telemetry data) and the majority can't be bothered to change the default in either case.
Again I am making a huge assumption about correctly selected telemetry data here but opt in mechanisms won't get even 10% of the data they currently do.
Defaults should respect the user first. Consent has to be given, not taken as a default.
Sure ask up front explicitly but don't in passing invoke the first capture before consent has been taken. That's a shitty tactic.
Collecting basic usage data is not disrespecting the user.
It is when you know you can't persuade them you have a good-enough reason to need it, so instead you don't even try.
In your opinion. Mine differs.