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by oAlbe 3245 days ago
The reddit comment linked says:

> Post #27 (wbond):

> > adam314: Hi everyone, member of Kite here. The SideBarEnhancements telemetry was

> > originally added to gather data around what programming languages we should support next.

>

> [wbond:] The question is, why did you try to hide who the data was being sent to? And why did you ask

> to capture activeNonBundledPackageNames? That bit of data seems like a very non-anonymous

> collection of information. You could be capturing internal package names and consequently

> exfiltrating the existence of development of competitors products.