How to disable telemetry in config file?

[DeadNews]

#1777

This is release v0.25.0 of the Grafana Agent.
* As of this release, the Grafana Agent will send anonymous, but uniquely-identifiable information around enabled feature flags to stats.grafana.org. Statistics help us better understand how Grafana Agent is used. This helps us prioritize features and documentation. If you would like to disable the reporting, Grafana Agent provides the flag -disable-reporting
to stop the reporting.

How to disable telemetry via --config.file, in /etc/grafana-agent/grafana-agent.yml?

[rfratto]

Hi, there is currently no way to disable reporting in the config file and it must be done via the -disable-reporting command line flag mentioned above.

[Sommerwiesel]

Just found this - sorry for thread necro but this is a really bad practise. Any kind of analytics should be, inaccordance with gdpr, OPT-IN and not enabled by default, especially if disabling it is impossible via config file and requires overwriting the systemd unit. I just found out that my server has been sending this kind of analytics without my knowledge and this is in my opinion a huge screw up on your part.
Please comply with gdpr as well as some common human sense and change this in a future update of the grafana agent so that its disabled by default and opt-in only.

[vnugent]

@rfratto Any updates on this?