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Acquiring end-user telemetry by recording inputs and sending them to the app developer is not great especially if they don't ask for your permission. This is q

• octocode 8y ago
  Telemetry implies capturing data in the form of measurements. Stuff like "touchscreen swipe: element, location, and duration". A click heat-map would be an example of telemetry. This isn't the same thing. This is an actual recording of a user's entire session. While it doesn't capture a rendered image like a "screen recorder" would do, it captures every change in real-time, so it can play it back perfectly, and the end result is the same: you can watch a video of your user's session. And I can personally confirm that people definitely stand around the water cooler and talk about the stuff they watched. It's creepy.