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by ricardobeat 1170 days ago
That’s very different isn’t it? Telemetry on an application you are a customer of, especially one with a GUI is expected. Tracking on a framework that you install, maybe even as a third party dependency, is not. Can you picture every major software dependency you use phoning home when you start a project?
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The only real differences are who the user is (possibly a developer vs. an "end user") and how many hands are rifling through the user's pockets without permission. In an audience composed of mostly developers the attitude toward these scenarios may be different, but the fundamental ethical calculus is the same.