3 guides tagged with "Disable sending of package statistics (popcon)"

"popularity-contest" checks "/etc/popularity-contest.conf" for the value of "PARTICIPATE" to send data. Configuring this configuration allows you to opt out of the submission of data.

Normally, "popularity-contest" is run from a cron job, "/etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest". This job automatically submits the results to package maintainers once a week. This script disables the cronjob, thus the automatic submission, but manually running "popularity-contest" would still send data.

This script deletes the "popularity-contest" package. This package submits to the Debian developers statistics about the most used Debian packages on the system. According to community reports, deleting this package does not have any side effects.