Fedora considers "privacy-preserving" telemetry

Who, exactly, is "Trying to ransom our data"? And for what? Those are some pretty strong words....

The thing is, it doesn't matter I or you say here -- What matters is what's in the actual proposal -- the proposal that hardly anyone seems to have actually *read* before expressing opinions about what it says and the "obvious" motivations of its authors and/or the entities that are paying their salaries.

So, going back to what the actual proposal says, no data will be submitted without explicit user consent.

Meanwhile. If you have a problem with "data being gathered" on your local system, I trust you've also disabled (eg) GNOME's search/indexing functionality, which is on by default [1]. Do you also routinely clear (or disable) your browser cache? And then there's everything gathered and stored in ~/.cache or /var/cache -- The system I'm typing this on has over 2.7GB of stuff in ~/.cache (1.2GB of that are browser caches), plus another ~6GB of stuff in /var/cache covering 125 different programs, and while some of that is generic (eg dnf metadata caches) I'd wager the majority of it is stuff unique to my system or even me personally. I actually opted into very little of that, except in the sense that I willingly chose to use a modern Linux desktop system.

[1] Putting aside GNOME, there's also the classic 'locate' database, though I'm not sure if that's installed/enabled by default on Fedora these days. Personally I've always installed/enabled it as I find that functionality invaluable.