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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Maybe making it an opt out was a little sleazy. I'd wager that if it were an opt in, very few people would sign up for it.
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
And that would kill the program.
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Which is as it should be. Opt-out is not "a little sleazy", it's VERY sleazy, indefensible and should be automatically illegal. ANY data-gathering ploy like this is should only be allowed as opt-in. It's very hard for anyone to claim they're supporting users' freedom of choice if they defend a program that does not actually give users the choice to use it, but instead forces them to actively choose not to.