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+# Console Do Not Track (DNT)
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+{{ site.description }}
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+Gatsby has `GATSBY_TELEMETRY_DISABLED`.  Homebrew has
+`HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS`.  Etcher has... well,
+[nothing](https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/2057).
+
+This is a proposal for a single, standard environment variable that plainly
+expresses an OPT OUT by a user of software to any of the following:
+
+* ad tracking
+* usage reporting
+* automatic update phone-home
+* non-essential requests of any kind to the creator of the software
+
+<span class="reallybig">export DO_NOT_TRACK=1</span>
+
+# PRs and Status
+
+* coming soon
+* coming soon
+