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🚀 HTTPie Desktop — cross-platform API testing client for humans. Painlessly test REST, GraphQL, and HTTP APIs.
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Telemetry enabled by default with no option to disable #176

Open davidhammaker opened 3 months ago

davidhammaker commented 3 months ago

Developer tools show POST requests to https://api.s.httpie.io/v1/t with data that looks like telemetry data.

I switched from Postman and use Incognito Mode to make things a little more private, so I would prefer to have telemetry off, but there's no "Off" switch.

Of course, I thought, "Maybe I agreed to this..." Skimming through the ToS and Privacy Policy on httpie.io, I don't see the word "telemetry" anywhere. I can see some information about data collected from "Site Visitors and Account Holders", but as an incognito user on the desktop application, I don't think I'm either of those. I see information about data collected automatically "when visiting or interacting with our Site". Again, I'm not on the site when I'm using the app. In the app itself, I can't find any ToS or Privacy Policy. So it seems kind of secret.

jkbrzt commented 3 weeks ago

@davidhammaker, thanks for the feedback. We’ll update the privacy to clarify that it also covers the desktop app. The app was only available online when it was written, and the desktop version became available later. We use the same usage metrics on both platforms, and they help us deliver a better product to our users. No sensitive information is included, and in Incognito Mode, usage metrics are also incognito.