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by justncase80 3818 days ago
Is it really a privacy concern if its anonymous usage statistics?

The word for it is telemetry and every medium sized app or bigger has been doing it for a really long time.

What's the big deal?

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Well, on one hand it's not a big deal because it's all the EULA and you've presumably read it and agreed it to it before booting up.

On the other, it's a pretty big deal because I view my computers as extensions of my brain. And I view the ability to do things privately in my brain of paramount importance.

Now, I understand why software builders like to build in telemetry (it allows them to tweak their products to be more popular and sell data to advertisers) but I cannot accept such a thing for a general-purpose operating system.