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I think this is really simple: telemetry should be opt in, anonymous, and _in_ the interest of the user in the long term by the improvement of the software. Because it’s _not_ possible to get this information any other way through user studies etc.

If it’s hard to disable, contains any PII or sensitive info (urls, file names) then it’s not OK.




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