[philpem]

This. If they were at least up-front and said what it collects, how, when, and how to turn it off (or better yet, followed privacy best practice and turned it into informed opt-in), I'd be more eager to upgrade.

With that said -- there's still room for due diligence. I've built systems which handle personal data, and we pretty much started with Debian minimal and worked from there. To make damn sure, we stuck them behind a whitelisted firewall. They had access only to things we allowed them to see, and only in the direction we allowed.