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# Console Do Not Track (DNT)
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[Gatsby ](https://www.gatsbyjs.org/ ) has `GATSBY_TELEMETRY_DISABLED` .
[Homebrew ](https://brew.sh/ ) has `HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS` .
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[Syncthing ](https://syncthing.net/ ) has `STNOUPGRADE` , a config file setting
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for disabling crash reporting, and a GUI prompt for usage reporting. Google
Cloud SDK CLI tools has `gcloud config set disable_usage_reporting true` .
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.NET Core has `DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT` . Netlify's CLI has
`netlify --telemetry-disable` . The AWS Serverless Application Model
CLI has `SAM_CLI_TELEMETRY=0` . The Microsoft Azure CLI has
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`AZURE_CORE_COLLECT_TELEMETRY=0` . You get the idea.<!--
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Etcher has... well,
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[nothing ](https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/2057 ). -->
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This is a proposal for a single, standard environment variable that plainly
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and unambiguously expresses LACK OF CONSENT by a user of that software to
**any** of the following:
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* ad tracking
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* usage reporting, anonymous or not
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* automatic update phone-home
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* crash reporting
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* *non-essential-to-functionality* requests of *any kind* to the creator of
the software or other *tracking services*
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We just want local software, and by providing it to us you are not entitled
to our usage, our crashes, or our IP addresses.
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Remember: in the right hands, an IP address is a *physical location* . If
you would not collect your users' GPS coordinates against their wishes, you
should not be collecting their IP addresses against their wishes!
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Authors, do the *ethical thing* and respect the following environment
variable in your software and your *limited rights to the computers of your
users*:
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< div class = "card card-body bg-light text-center shadow-lg p-3 mb-5 bg-white rounded" >
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< h1 > < code > export DO_NOT_TRACK=1< / code > < / h1 >
< / div >
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# Adopted
* netdata system monitor:
[netdata/netdata#7846 ](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/7846 )
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* tilt:
[windmilleng/tilt#2878 ](https://github.com/windmilleng/tilt/pull/2878 )
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* turbo: [docs ](https://turbo.build/repo/docs/telemetry#how-do-i-opt-out )
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# PRs and Status
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* homebrew: [Homebrew/brew
#6745 ](https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/6745)
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* gatsby: [gatsbyjs/gatsby
#19528 ](https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/pull/19528)
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* netlify-cli: [netlify/cli#737 ](https://github.com/netlify/cli/issues/737 )
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* syncthing: [syncthing/syncthing
#6158 ](https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/6158)
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* dotnet: [dotnet/sdk #3917 ](https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/3917 )
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* Archey4: [archey4/51cdfa98 ](https://github.com/HorlogeSkynet/archey4/commit/51cdfa9835a6694034e44ca10dc9e91eb14970fb )
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* others: [get
involved](https://github.com/sneak/consoledonottrack.com/pulls)
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# Contribute!
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Source code is here: [consoledonottrack.com ](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/consoledonottrack.com ).
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You may send patches to [sneak@sneak.berlin ](mailto:sneak@sneak.berlin ).
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# See Also
* [no-color.org ](https://no-color.org/ )
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# Update, 2024
This project was a mistake; it implicitly endorses opt-out spyware (aka telemetry).
It doesn't matter if you allow your users to disable telemetry with a flag or environment variable; to opt them in to spying automatically without their explicit, opt-in consent is unethical. Even the people who implemented this flag above are scumbags, because their software is spyware unless you set it. Shipping spyware is unethical.
Software should ask first. Failing to opt out is not consent.
