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Comment by bayindirh

3 months ago

It’s another “we listened the community and nobody told us no” moment. Like Go’s telemetry issue.

Google is boneheaded and hostile to open web at this point, explicitly.

> It’s another “we listened the community and nobody told us no” moment. Like Go’s telemetry issue.

Go changed their telemetry to opt-in based on community feedback, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make with that example.

  • No. The official statement from Brian was “I received a couple of personal e-mails from some credible people who stated that their data belonged to them, so we (I) decided to make it opt-in” (paraphrased).

    I spent days in that thread. That uproar was “a bunch of noisy minority which doesn’t worth listening” for them.

    • I mean yeah, I too would probably prefer to read a few well-reasoned arguments over email than to wade through hundreds of hateful, vitriolic, accusatory comments from randos in a GitHub thread. Being an open-source maintainer is hard.

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