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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`.
.NET Core has `DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT`. The AWS Serverless Application
Model CLI has `SAM_CLI_TELEMETRY=0`. The Microsoft Azure CLI has
`AZURE_CORE_COLLECT_TELEMETRY=0`. You get the idea.<!--
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Etcher has... well,
[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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# 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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* 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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* others: [get
involved](https://github.com/sneak/consoledonottrack.com/pulls)
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# Contribute!
PRs welcome: [consoledonottrack.com GitHub](https://github.com/sneak/consoledonottrack.com).
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# See Also
* [no-color.org](https://no-color.org/)