[perihelions]

Lack of express consent.

No one on HN has any objection to explicit opt-in usage statistics. Telemetry is not the problem. Lack of consent is the problem. Software developers sliding themselves into end users' local machines without invitation is the problem—devs who feel entitled to take things, simply because they have the technical access to take them. And devs who don't even understand the difference.

[emptiestplace]

> No one on HN

Absolutely, let's keep this pattern going!

[perihelions]

I don't understand your comment? To clarify my own: it's my observation that I've never seen anyone on HN utter a word against opt-in telemetry models, like the one Debian uses.

Of all the diverse viewpoints, FOSS extremists and privacy fundamentalists, the core facet of "you can submit statistics to our popularity survey if you want" is not something I've ever seen anyone object to. The objections are always to some other facet of telemetry.