Hello,

Fedora 30 has been released with a new privacy-friendly way of counting users.
This solution has ben given a lot of thought and feedback. Here is some
documentation about their solution:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DNF_Better_Counting

According to https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Statistics
openSUSE uses UUID sent by zypper to count openSUSE installs. Though UUIDs are
anonymous, they can still be used for tracking purposes even if openSUSE do not
appear to do so. For instance, it makes it possible to know exactly which
packages are installed on a machine using a particular UUID, which can give a
lot of information, and exactly when a package is installed by each machine.

One concern with dropping UUIDs would be that several openSUSE installs can
share the same IP, which may lead to underestimations when counting, but
Fedora's solution takes care or this issue, and also provides a way to not
count short-lived / throwaway installs.

The tracking feature can be disabled, but first, the user is not made aware of
this feature, and second, a user can be willing to be counted without enabling
any way of tracking.

This bug report is a feature request to drop the usage of UUIDs in Zypper and
adopt a new UUID-less mechanism such as the one used by Fedora.

See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1542060