You serious? Telemetry for Gitlab? I see only one option: remove all telemetry and make a blogpost about why that idea was bad that you will not implement it.

You serious? Telemetry for Gitlab? I see only one option: remove all telemetry and make a blogpost about why that idea was bad that you will not implement it. And even doing so harm is already done. Now you can minimize harm by making such post as fast as possible.