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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

There's also many different takes on privacy as a whole. I personally don't mind software collecting statistics or debug data for automatic bug reports, but I don't want cookies tracking me through multiple websites and building a profile with all my data.

But some folks will claim you're an absolute fool if you even allow a program to check for updates automatically.