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by II2II 1730 days ago
The problem is an irrational degree of distrust in the industry as a whole.

It's not that I blame those who distrust any form of telemetry. Many companies are eager to harvest as much personal information as possible. Depending upon one's definition of personal information, some of the data acquired by telemetry can be used for that purpose. In many cases the data collection process is deliberately opaque. In the remaining cases, very few people have the ability to verify that what is actually sent reflects what they are told is sent. That's before factoring in Microsoft's involvement here, since they have a negative reputation in some circles due to their past business practices.

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I think the software industry as a whole has earned a high degree of distrust on these issues. It's not irrational.