RFC: Uninstall snap and Ubuntu telemetry packages

[onedr0p]

I was reading an interesting article on snap and Ubuntu and it seems like the consensus is that it's 💩

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22972661

What do you guys think about uninstalling that and the Ubuntu telemetry packages? I can open a PR if you agree 🙂

- apport
- popularity-contest
- snapd
- sosreport
- ubuntu-advantage-tools

Apport*: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport - "Apport collects potentially sensitive data, such as core dumps, stack traces, and log files. They can contain passwords, credit card numbers, serial numbers, and other private material."

sosreport: "generates a compressed tarball of debugging information for the system it is run on that can be sent to technical support reps that will give them a more complete view of the overall system status." This is sent to canonical.

popularity-contest: "The popularity-contest package sets up a cron job that will periodically anonymously submit to the Ubuntu developers statistics about the most used Ubuntu packages on this system." This is sent to canonical.

ubuntu-advantage-tools: This is a paid service offered by Ubuntu https://ubuntu.com/legal/ubuntu-advantage

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[crutonjohn]

While I mostly agree with your assertion of Snap and the like being terrible, I think taking an opinionated stance from the perspective of this particular repo is not necessarily "in-scope". Due to the wonderful nature of Ansible, it would be fairly trivial to use ansible-galaxy to include a remote role to remove said packages.