[lukewarm707]

i think that in a free society, you should be able to sell the product you want to sell. but, you should give information of what you are selling to the customer.

if it has telemetry, then it is a tool the customer buys, that also has the function of listening and reporting to others, how it is being used.

you want to sell it - no problem. but tell the customer, "look, this is bugged, and it's going to tell me what you are doing. but it's a great product." anything with opt-out telemetry needs a big version of that warning on the top of the page.

personally i am not a buyer. but that's my preference.

[jorvi]

Again: telemetry isn't "spying" and it isn't "bugging" the application. It collects usage patterns: how often is which button being pressed by which type of user.

It is not collecting data on you personally nor is it collecting the actual data you enter.

[lukewarm707]

go on posthog: https://posthog.com/session-replay

"Watch people use your product" - that's their own words!

it literally sends you screen capture. and yes, you can id the user and capture inputs.

YC 2020. we love to see it.

[jorvi]

https://posthog.com/questions/how-to-hide-text-inputs

Of course the question remains if a company has "maskAllImages: true, maskAllTextInputs: true" (and I also wonder if they hide UI elements like message titles / contents), but that's why I mentioned I only turn on telemetry for companies that seem to explicitly, consistently and robustly care about privacy and security.