[patchymcnoodles]

If they want to add telemetry without asking the user, then they have to fix an entire industry including Google itself. They trained the people to hard disagree with such approaches, because in the past there was way too many incidents where data was unnecessary collected and misused.

Just trying to add this telemetry with opt-out in the first place shown one thing: They don't know their audience. Because if they would, if someone would have come up with that idea, everybody in the team should have screamed: "No, hell no!". You don't have the trust of your users.

I get it, getting trust back is much more effort than collecting more data (even if it's with good intent). But hey, the industry put itself into this.