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# Console Do Not Track (DNT)
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[Gatsby](https://www.gatsbyjs.org/) has `GATSBY_TELEMETRY_DISABLED`.
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[Homebrew](https://brew.sh/) has `HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS`.
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[Syncthing](https://syncthing.net/) has `STNOUPGRADE` and some config file
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setting for disabling crash reporting. <!-- 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
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**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
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the software or other cloud or tracking services
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We just want local software, and by providing it to us you are not entitled
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to our usage, our crashes, or our IP addresses.
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Authors, do the *ethical thing* and respect the following environment
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variable in your software and your *limited rights to the computers of your
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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>
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</div>
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# PRs and Status
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* homebrew: coming soon
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* gatsby: coming soon
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* syncthing: coming soon
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* others: [get
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involved](https://github.com/sneak/consoledonottrack.com/pulls)
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