[JohnFen]

The problem with explanations and promises is that there's a lot of bad water that has flowed under those bridges. They amount to just saying "trust me".

As a dev, telemetry makes me nervous because so many projects rely on it too heavily and make bad design decisions because the telemetry blinds them.

[conradev]

Absolutely. There are steps that software can take to build this trust, though, like

- Have a screen that shows all telemetry that is going to be or has been sent

- Ask for permission to send any telemetry, or certain types of telemetry (i.e. crash reports)

– Publicly share the collected telemetry.