[esotericn]

From what I can tell they're still going to do it, but in a different way, e.g. it might be opt in (hopefully not in a fake-opt-in style like a GDPR popup) or opt out or whatever.

Fundamentally they want to do telemetry it seems and are trying to figure out a hack to get people to accept it.

[emilycook]

(GitLab employee) we're discussing other options too, I'm personally advocating strongly against just going ahead with the current plan. My preference would be for no third-party involvement and just better ways to analyze the data we already have