Manjaro Considers Embedding a Telemetry Tool
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Manjaro plans to introduce a new tool called Manjaro Data Donor (MDD) to help it better understand its user base, aiming to improve how usage statistics are gathered. However, with any new telemetry tool, there are always a few concerns that deserve attention.
The motivation behind MDD is clear: Manjaro wants to enhance user counting and collect insightful hardware and environment data. Up until now, Manjaro systems were counted by sending pings to ping.manjaro.org. This method, however, had significant drawbacks.
For instance, individual systems were only distinguished by their IP addresses, which meant that systems behind the same NAT setup were counted as one. Additionally, IP addresses needed to be stored, even if only for a short while. This wasn’t ideal for privacy.