To improve the account creation process of any FOSS tool would require simple data collection about where they drop out during the sign up process. There is no account for this so there is nothing to log that is attached to a person.
Yet.... Most FOSS people are adamant that this data should not be collected. Why? There is zero personal info. It's meant to help the project.
Is the reluctance basically a "slippery slope"? E.g. never give an inch?
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I'm getting strong support on this: very basic, server side data, which has NOTHING to do with the user (e.g. no IP) can be analyzed (not stored!)
Yes, corporations abused data collection, but this trauma taught us the wrong lesson: analysis is not evil, abusing data collection is. But people continue to have knee jerk reactions to this, creating strawmen that don't exist.
FOSS can be open and transparent. We can prove that trust. Let's *want* to find good, safe, transparent ways to do this.
