[Shank]

I think we as developers understand the rationale behind it. The outrage you may see is that in self hosted instances, the companies and people that pick that as their option do so because they want an isolated/independent system. Telemetry from a self hosted system is atypical, especially compared to SaaS that's hosted by you. It's more normal in apps people download that already use the internet, but you already have that option in what you host.

Frankly, I used to work at a DoD contractor and we ran GitHub Enterprise and GitLab behind secured networks. That kind of expectation -- that the software will never phone home -- was what let us run and justify them in the first place.

Edit: Looks like the comment I replied to has been changed, and essentially removed. I'm sorry if this is now out of context.