Re: [Tails-dev] Privacy Concerns

To be fair, unless I'm missing something, that can hardly be considered telemetry given that the only identifiable information that could be stored with boot count is the IP address (plus possibly the Tails version, if the boot count happens during upgrade availability check as reported elsewhere), and the IP address is anonymized by Tor. But I guess it's matter of definition.


27 feb 2025, 11:52 da marcoc_maillist@???:

> AFAIK, in fact, Tails does telemetry, only for boot count.
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> On gio, 2025-02-27 at 10:21 +0100, boyska wrote:
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>> Edan Osborne:
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>>> I just read the recent post about replacing balenaEtcher with Rufus in the Windows install guide. However, something struck me as odd. The post mentioned that "people who install Tails from macOS represent less than 10% of installations nowadays."
>>> My first question is simple. How exactly did Tails arrive at this figure without telemetry?
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>> We don't have a specific figure, but we're pretty sure it's not many,
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>>   - Tails doesn't work on recent Apple models at all (different
>>     architecture)
>>   - Tails had serious compatibility issues for previous apple models
>>   - despite this, the amount of support requests we receive for Apple is
>>     much less than what we get for other computers
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