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It's very generic phrasing, and some products do hide nefarious behaviour behind it, but it's also just an accurate description of the most innocent, straightforward use of telemetry out there. I, for one, can't think of a way to monetise Firebase stack traces.

This is a game, so let's use other games as examples. Here's two pretty damn good talks from GDC about what the value telemetry brings to the table (the StS one goes into a whole bunch of other stuff that's sort of irrelevant but also serves to motivate the telemetry topic):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urx7WQE6NY0 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rqfbvnO_H0