[nyberg]

Opt-in should be the default where the tool asks for consent politely. Information on how the application is being interacted with belongs to the user not the developer thus it should favour their choice over sneakily enabling it for those that didn't pay attention or don't understand it.

It's on the project to convince the user to turn on telemetry rather than the user having to remember to turn it off. Excuses such as "nobody would turn it on" don't apply.