[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.