I just noticed that the alpha and beta versions of TVAI have anonymous data collection enabled by default even if users have disabled it in their main installation. Can the team please be respectful of users’ choices and honor their decision not to send anonymous data?
Alpha and beta installs are completely separate from release installs. They don’t take any settings from existing releases and have to be set independently. They do keep settings when you install newer alphas and betas over them.
There should be a way to tie that choice to the user’s account, since the alpha/beta installations still require account activation. Many apps and services synchronize users’ preferences across all devices and installations through their account info.
Or the alpha/beta versions could reference the installation that is already on the user’s machine.
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The whole idea of alpha/beta testing is that the test seats stand alone. Otherwise, if something goes wrong they’ll never know whether it was caused by the test seat or the release seat’s configuration files.
I don’t see how referencing a user’s choice to not send anonymous data could cause something to go wrong. If they wanted to perform alpha/beta testing with controlled preferences, they wouldn’t have given users the option to change them in the first place.
Anyway, given the number of bugs that make it to the final releases, I doubt they’re paying much attention to the things that go wrong.
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Hello.
Without going all litigated, or just geeky (ha-ha), once any user, sign-over their rights as a customer / consumer to engaged themselves into some type of alpha / beta campaign, 99.9898% of the time, that user’s rights are frozen… that the user AGREED to knowingly or not.
The price of being an unpaid tester “to shape up any software” as being first to play with it. 
ALWAYS READ WHAT YOU AGREE TO THOROUGHLY!!!
Beta builds behave like the release builds they are intended to test. If you have installed a previous beta, updating it to a newer one will read the preferences you set for the previous beta. Having the beta read from a release build would be behavior that a release build doesn’t have.
The fact that release builds often have changes other than what beta users post about, suggests to me that the developers are using the anonymous data collected more than they’re using comments in the beta forum.
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This does seem quite problematic as both should be used but, it is what it is I guess.
