Dropbox telemetry can't be disabled

• syncthing-android

  1,234 3,051 9.2 Java

  Wrapper of syncthing for Android.

  

I switched away from Dropbox to Syncthing https://syncthing.net/ a few years ago.

• go

  2,078 119,900 10.0 Go

  The Go programming language

  

I'm not sure.

There was an opt-out telemetry proposal in Go [0], which caused a huge backlash. The proposal authors were so focused on the benefits of the telemetry, that they did their best to invent all kinds of very convincing arguments why their telemetry is okay, ethical, not intrusive, etc. etc. They completely ignored the ethics of the problem - that they are not entitled to users' data without consent.

It took a very dramatic reaction from the community to convince them that adding opt-out telemetry without users' explicit consent is a bad idea, no matter how "non-intrusive" and "helpful" it is.

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• rclone

  963 43,959 9.8 Go

  "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files

  

https://rclone.org/ is only like maestral if you squint hard enough, but it does support Google Drive.

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