red hat, what are you doing
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That's lip service to privacy with spyware in reality.
That said, Fedora Legal has determined that if we collect any personally-identifiable data, the entire metrics system must be opt-in. Since we are only interested in opt-out metrics due to the low value of opt-in metrics, we must accordingly never collect any personally-identifiable data.
Looks like this statement contradicts with their goal.
but if you just click Next like most users will do, it’ll be enabled
That's the definition of opt-out, so they're telling the truth :) Opt-out is the worse alternative when it comes to unwanted features, opt-in would have been better.
Do you know how this will affect existing installations? Is this gnome only or any desktop?
States the gnome-initial-setup. KDE is big on telemetry only being opt-in, so it seems like just the gnome environment. Or at least I hope I'm right...
I'm happier than ever that I moved to a different distro. I was a Fedora user since they started and was happy to use it for a few years at the job. But seeing what's happening with the whole red hat shit it makes me sad for the people who gave a lot of their time and passion for this.
It's getting harder and harder for the Fedora devs to show they are independent of red hat...