> In fact, I'd go so far as to say that using the internet to collect data on usage patterns is a sufficiently powerful technique No-one is saying that's a bad

> In fact, I'd go so far as to say that using the internet to collect data on usage patterns is a sufficiently powerful technique No-one is saying that's a bad thing. What's bad is that it does this automatically without your consent, so long before you can even disable it, it's already leaking data. What's even worse is that it also send potentially sensitive data that appear in exceptions to bugsnag.com and AFAIK, there's no way to disable that by disabling the metrics collection. In fact they don't seem to tell you about it at all. https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/4966 https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/4966