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"Telmetry" has been co-opted by the tin foil hat wearing privacy keyboard warriors. It's akin to the people spending tens of thousands of dollars on disaster p

• salawat 6y ago
  You mean, like all the software that has been written since companies got into the habit of embedding telemetry in everything? That crappy software? Telemetry has a specific use-case. Taking measurements in a place you can't go. What industry employs it for nowadays is much closer to spyware in the sense you can get so much more of it done without it producing a noticeable effect for the user in terms of how much work their computer is actually doing. So what if you spin through a couple rounds of telemetry gathering while the user's process is blocked, am I right? Not like they're using it. /s