this is a clear violation of GDPR, unless they can really guarantee the data is 100% anonymous, gitlab was able to provide the service without telemetry & is no

this is a clear violation of GDPR, unless they can really guarantee the data is 100% anonymous, gitlab was able to provide the service without telemetry & is now blocking access to the (self-hosted) service unless one consents to the new data gathering practices. Best of all, 12.4 was released 2 days ago, the notification e-mail was sent out today...