@RL_Dane Have you ever actually used telemetry? Once you've been on the collecting end of it, it's way less scary than the average person tends to believe after reading about Google's latest privacy-violating antics. The fact that some companies do analytics in ways that are invasive doesn't mean everyone does. Even people who use Google Analytics oftentimes use it in privacy-respecting ways (both of the places I've seen it used did).
Perhaps, but it's a pretty jarring thing to see on an "open source company's" website.
I don't think all telemetry is evil, for sure (I always enable popularity-contest in Debian, and the KDE Plasma opt-in telemetry), but I have some serious distrust when it comes to web telemetry, although I'm sure part of that is my unfamiliarity with the technologies used.
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