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Questions tagged [telemetry]

This tag is used when the topic is the OS feature that sends information to Canonical about events that happen in the user's system

This tag is used when the topic is the OS feature that sends information to Canonical about events that happen in the user's system

This starts out with the initial System Information transmission (which users can clearly opt in or out), and can also refer to crash reports and other adverse system issue information.

Canonical is very minimalist in their approach - they just want basic information about how many installs are being performed on various kinds of systems and also about specific system program issues.

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How to Opt Out of System Information Reports

During installation of Ubuntu 18.04, after the runtime environment is enabled, and during the first login, a question pops up asking whether you want to Help Improve Ubuntu. (Screenshot is from the 18.04 first-login "Welcome" process) If you say…
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What data are transmitted to Canonical for livepatch?

I just upgraded to 18.04 and wanted to try out livepatch. After reading the Livepatch Terms of Service web page (https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/livepatch-terms-of-service) I wondered a bit about these two paragraphs in the personal…
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How to disable telemetry for all users

I installed 18.04 (clean install) on a computer that is intended to be a multi-user system. Every new user I create gets asked to opt out of telemetry on his or her first login (as part of the welcome screen, as shown in this question). As an admin,…
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Does docker consume CPU the way VMs do?

Apart from looking at docker stats, I want to know how docker consumes physical CPU or where will it be classified between CPU User, CPU System and CPU Guest, etc, stats? I am collecting metrics using netdata. I am looking at different types of…
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Why is my system connected to an Amazon AWS server?

From a fresh reboot I entered netstat -an | more in a terminal shell and located a foreign ip address 99.86.32.24 from netstat's output connected to my system over port 443. I've opted out of sending diagnostic reports to cannonical telemetry…
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Firefox 128 snap Telemetry privacy problem

I have all telemetry disabled in Firefox settings. Settings > Firefox Data Collection and Use: all unchecked. Still I see JS running on searchpages with binding events to the input field, like: sync event => { let start = Cu.now(); if…
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