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> People in tech really, really, really dislike it when the products/services they use attempt to track them (generally speaking).

This isn't even sort of generally speaking true. Nearly EVERYONE on HN is aware to some extent how incredibly massively they're tracked by their ISP, by Google and Facebook, by their phone, by their phone's manufacturer, by their operating system, by the security cameras in all the shops they visit, by proxy through all their friends who aren't as privacy-conscious as they may be, etc.

I see very few people "hating" this. And I say it as someone who does hate it. Most people here are aware of it, and they all have the "tingly feeling", but most actually do choose to actively ignore it. "I don't have to deal with the idea that my phone is tracking me until there's public outrage abou tit" sort of thing.

And I'm not stubborn enough to put "gitlab wants to know how their product is being used" and "samsung wants to know what I'm watching and when" in the same bucket. And given how much of an improvement gitlab is over the status quo, I also know not to make enemies of my closest allies.