Minecraft to add telemetry
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Minecraft to add telemetry
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Re: Minecraft to add telemetry
#2I'm not sure if there's an option to turn this off, but even if there isn't, since it's Java Edition, a mod could easily be created to turn it off anyway.
Re: Minecraft to add telemetry
#3I'm not sure if there's an option to turn this off, but even if there isn't, since it's Java Edition, a mod could easily be created to turn it off anyway.
It is still quite frustrating that it has come to the point that you may need to mod a game you purchased to avoid telemetry.
Re: Minecraft to add telemetry
#4> In this release, we are re-introducing diagnostic tracking, which was part of Minecraft: Java Edition until 2018.
So it was there, they took it out, now it's back.
Re: Minecraft to add telemetry
#5Weird that a Microsoft product would get hard to disable telemetry…
All jokes aside though, this doesn’t seem too bad and I can put myself in their shoes to understand why they want this data. It would be difficult to monotone this information (asides maybe a nice shiny new Surface machine).
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#6If the reasons they give for this were honest, you'd think their time would be better spent building the kind of extremely basic integration tests that would detect if, say, their world generation broke making the game unwinnable.
https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-236618
Inflammatory zingers aside, I don't mind telemetry in a product like this and I'm sure I'd want it if I were working on it. But I'd want automated tests first. Factorio's approach seems enlightened, but very rare in the industry.
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#7Eh Minecraft is a video game, I just don't see the privacy risk with "typical" Windows-level telemetry happening there.
At some point we have to accept that this data actually helps them fix real issues too, they're not monetizing their players directly with it.
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#8> In this release, we are re-introducing diagnostic tracking, which was part of Minecraft: Java Edition until 2018. So it was there, they took it out, now it's back.
If it was "game crashed, here's the stacktrace" before and now (or later) it's "player put 20 blocks of gold on server IP 127.0.0.1 with players foo, bar, baz present", it's a difference.
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#9I'm not sure if there's an option to turn this off, but even if there isn't, since it's Java Edition, a mod could easily be created to turn it off anyway.
It is still quite frustrating that it has come to the point that you may need to mod a game you purchased to avoid telemetry.
I don't really mind this. There is no impact to me by having this telemetry in place.
Re: Minecraft to add telemetry
#10Are there any products whatsoever that come out of Microsoft that don't contain spyware?