In general, this whole thread reminds be of the Debian PopCon package/database. (...) choose to install on their system if they want to participate.

That works only if your user base in greater than very huge. There have been MILLIONS of Debian installations, while only less than 5000 were counted by PopCon.

scares me for a variety of reasons that will either seem obvious, or paranoid depending on the readers personality.

I'd like to know those reasons. What is wrong with letting others know your OS and version of Perl? No paths, personal information or anything non-static will be sent. $^O and $] are compiled into perl (in fact, $^O is not the platform perl *runs* on, but the one it was *compiled* on) and the module's name plus version are not computed, but hardcoded information. What is your objection to sharing this non-personal, non-identifying information, and why isn't opt-out good enough for you?

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