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There’s nothing bad about telemetry per se. In fact it should be considered bad to not be paying attention to how anything you build works in the real world.

(Then comes Meta c.s. and everyone rightly distrusts anything reported back from their computer)

This just to say, that yes, the majority of companies cannot be trusted, but there’s still good guys out there collecting useful metrics completely devoid of secondary malicious purposes.

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Intentions be damned. Some industries take IP/security very seriously (eg regulated medical). Tools which phone home “for my user experience” are a complete deal breaker.

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QED