I would straight-up uninstall your project and take any measures possible to remove myself from your platform (if any) if I discover an underhanded change like this.
A medium? Ask people. FOSS is different. There is a level of expected transparency and trust along with it that you can’t get back when broken. Changes like this are a very easy way to break that trust. Trust is everything here.
I expect to be tracked by commercial tools for the most part, but I still try to control how.
How would you feel if a trusted tool changed something you deem important without telling you? Generally a response is feeling betrayed.
The fact that someone skilled enough took time out of their lives to make this PR means that it matters enough to seriously reconsider.
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I would straight-up uninstall your project and take any measures possible to remove myself from your platform (if any) if I discover an underhanded change like this.
A medium? Ask people. FOSS is different. There is a level of expected transparency and trust along with it that you can’t get back when broken. Changes like this are a very easy way to break that trust. Trust is everything here.
I expect to be tracked by commercial tools for the most part, but I still try to control how.
How would you feel if a trusted tool changed something you deem important without telling you? Generally a response is feeling betrayed.
The fact that someone skilled enough took time out of their lives to make this PR means that it matters enough to seriously reconsider.