[neonsunset]

I hate to defend telemetry of all things but in this particular case the criticism is unfounded and lacks context:

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/telemetry

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetr...

https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/tree/main/src/Cli/dotnet/Telem...

In any case, Debian would use https://github.com/dotnet/source-build and dotnet/dotnet, and could easily include the argument or a patch for this. It’s unlikely to be an issue. My bet it was not in Debian because there was no one to take initiative yet or there was but that person has faced a backlash by people in Debian who are similar to vocal minority here that posts FUD because of their little personal crusade.

[jwrallie]

Your second source mentions you have to change a variable in bash to opt out for telemetry, I fail to see where the FUD is.

[kragen]

yeah, debian does generally make spyware explicitly opt-in. even https://popcon.debian.org/stable/index.html is explicitly opt-in

i think the links you provide make it clear that the criticism is not unfounded