[lapcat]

> they know your personal address

There's a huge difference between having my home address, which a lot of people do, and observing my activity all day while I'm in the privacy of my home.

To turn it around, Apple publishes its own corporate address but is extremely secretive about what goes on inside the building and does not appreciate leaks.

> apple is possibly phoning home to App Store Connect to secretly record every time a developer launches a project? it sounds a bit strangely conspiratorial

It's not a conspiracy. It's just a complete disregard for developer privacy from a company that claims "privacy is a human right". There's a difference between doing something bad on purpose and doing something bad simply because you don't give a crap about the effects.

> I understand this is just one of those things that some people decide to care a lot about, and in some cases it makes a lot of sense, but not this one.

Privacy aside, do you care about slow builds?