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From: "Gerard E. Seibert" <gerard@seibercom.net>
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Subject: Re: Disable microsoft telemetry
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2019 07:55:18 -0400
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On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 18:17:27 +0330, Behrooz Amoozad stated:
>I'm not sure if this even fits here, but it would be really nice if the
>default bashrc included DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=3D'true'.
>Currently, After installing microsoft .net framework, it has telemetry
>enabled by default and it works at least once upon installation. It
>would be real nice if it didn't do that, anywhere, at all, not once.
>And ONLY you have the power to make this right.
>I don't know how many purists are left at gnu, I just hope there are
>enough left making decisions for bash.

I just read the
<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetry> page,
and it appears that the information collected is both configurable and
used primarily to diagnose crashes. I don't find it overly intrusive
myself, but each to his own I suppose.

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