Etcher seems to be an USB flasher. The linked issue says that it phones home on startup, but there's no analysis regarding what it sends. This could be usage tr

Etcher seems to be an USB flasher. The linked issue says that it phones home on startup, but there's no analysis regarding what it sends. This could be usage tracking or an update check. While the reporter is correct that some users don't want this to happen, it doesn't look that unusual or dangerous. "Secretly spies" is unnecessarily inflammatory, I would say. Looking at the GitHub history of the reporter, he seems to be opening quite a lot of issues like this one (asking projects to stop recommending Etcher or complaining about Netdata). He's also advertising his own standard for disabling telemetry across different applications: https://consoledonottrack.com/ https://consoledonottrack.com/. That idea has some merit, maybe, but I don't really like such an aggressive approach.