Quote from: justusranvier on August 09, 2014, 11:07:33 PM

Quote from: etotheipi on August 09, 2014, 02:27:03 PM

As a company, we have to have some way to measure our userbase, and we felt this was the least intrusive way possible. And you can opt-out.

A more responsible way to do this would be to generate a random unique identifier, instead of one that could be guess ahead of time, and make phoning home an opt-in feature.

Your claim that user can opt out is disingenuous - most users aren't going to know how to change a .desktop file to alter command line options.

For practical purposes options that can't be configured through the GUI don't exist.

I'm not a programmer and certainly wouldn't assume manually modifying a file to be "opting-out."

This is pretty alarming behavior. Guess I won't be using Armory anytime soon.