[gerrard00]

I definitely think this should be opt-in but I also think that it's silly to focus on just this scenario. I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that Google Docs and every other web based business tool use similar telemetry data to guide their UX and product investments as well as to preemptively address bugs.

[kenjackson]

Don't ALL web/internet based products have to collect some base level telemetry to simply function?

[josteink]

> Don't ALL web/internet based products have to collect some base level telemetry to simply function?

No. Not at all. There’s no technical reason which drives such a demand. A big, fat no.

But it can help making the company hosting the site money. By selling your data to others. And that’s another question entirely.

[smacktoward]

What’s new is having to think of your operating system as a “web/internet based product.”