Declining updates in general weakens herd immunity. No, declining security updates that are applicable in your situation and that actually work weakens herd im

Declining updates in general weakens herd immunity. No, declining security updates that are applicable in your situation and that actually work weakens herd immunity if the threat is contagious. On my system, I'll be the judge of when that applies, not some external organisation, and certainly not an external organisation with a track record of both abusing an automatic update mechanism to push changes that their users don't want and pushing changes that break things. Anti-telemetry and "update control" arguments kind of sound a lot like anti-vaxxer arguments. Anti-vaxxer arguments are not grounded in science and evidence. They advocate not taking effective preventative measures by denying the existence of the harms those measures prevent. Given that the risks from both bad updates and data leakage are well established, if anything I'd say the argument that we shouldn't care about controlling our own systems and uploads from them is the one analogous to anti-vaxxer reasoning.