New "feature" to phone home on builds is enabled by default

Unity Engine
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I just notice that in 5.0Beta20 there is a new option in player settings, Other settings.

Disable Analytics (Pro Only)

It’s OFF by default. I take that to mean that you are defaulting all builds to automatically phone home data. I like many people do not want my apps to phone home. While I do have pro an can disable it I don’t like the idea of having it on by default for each new project.

Could this be changed for pro to default to OFF? I can understand you wanting to force people using free, but for pro users?

Cheers

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Same kind of thing is in 4.x and enabled by default (submit hw stats) so nothing new here?

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Yes I noticed this also (HW Stats) is on by default, not many people know what it does, phones home - so no one bothers to disable it.
But what is done with this data? this is what bothers me more, what exactly is being collected?

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Significantly less than the NSA which already knows your next move. (It sends your hw/os not personal data).

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I heard Facebook knows that your in a relationship before you even do…

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http://stats.unity3d.com/

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Note: it only does this once on startup. It benefits you too I guess :slight_smile:

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Put on your tinfoil hat guys they’re watching

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It also does this only on the first run ever on a particular device.