[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.”