This seems really amazing. Please excuse my paranoia. Your privacy policy is very well written and easy to read. That's rare.
However, Is there someway I can make Fig not send any data to anyone else? From what I understand, Fig does send telemetry information, but I'd like to be made aware of it before it asks me to give it "accessibility" powers.
Also, while Fig may not send the data to anyone. Does this also cover all the auto-completion scripts? I'm worried I'll need to audit each one.
(I haven't gone past the grant accessibility powers screen)
Thanks! We do need to put in place a proper privacy policy. But we wanted to be transparent with how Fig uses your data (hence what we have currently).
You can run `fig settings app.disableTelemetry true` to disable all telemetry except for one daily ping.
You also make a good point: in our onboarding we should move our privacy information to before granting accessibility! We will make this more clear
I love your concept and wish to cheer you on, but this statement
> You can run `fig settings app.disableTelemetry true` to disable all telemetry except for one daily ping.
contains such a blatant lie (disableTelemetry does _not_ disable telemetry) that I've already lost a lot of trust, in an area I am not willing to play trust games. I hope you rethink this, soon and loudly.
I hear you and I agree. This is a huge oversight on our part and we will make the disableTelemetry command turn off all telemetry. This will come out in our next build
Nice! Good call. These HN posts can bring a lot of heat but it comes with extremely valuable feedback like this. For me it's too late; I've now seen that you need to be caught in the act before you'll do the right thing -- but for folks who didn't see this you'll be much better off going forward.
This is just unnecessarily rude. The guy had explicitly mentioned about the daily ping and it's mentioned on the product doc as well - so please don't make him up as the big bad guy who says I CAN HAZ DATA
I can't imagine that daily ping being worth the loss of trust from having a "disable telemetry" setting that doesn't really disable all telemetry. People who care about disabling telemetry will care about the daily ping, too.
Telemetry being on by default on something like this is going to be hard to pull off. Homebrew has telemetry but it's only for Homebrew commands. This would potentially be for every single command one type in a terminal. It just takes one little bug in the app and who knows what can be sent, maybe passwords and so on.
However, Is there someway I can make Fig not send any data to anyone else? From what I understand, Fig does send telemetry information, but I'd like to be made aware of it before it asks me to give it "accessibility" powers.
Also, while Fig may not send the data to anyone. Does this also cover all the auto-completion scripts? I'm worried I'll need to audit each one.
(I haven't gone past the grant accessibility powers screen)