I read the whole post, and had to do a mid-post brain state reshuffle to get out of my assumed “pump in the field” context to his ”snooping on users” context.

I read the whole post, and had to do a mid-post brain state reshuffle to get out of my assumed “pump in the field” context to his ”snooping on users” context. This for me, is because I’m playing with an ESP32 based project which uses protobufs, and I clocked into it from that mind set. The intended use of “telemetry” was not obvious for me, until some way until reading the piece. Even the first mention of Datadog didn’t raise any suspicions to me, it was the use of Java that first had me wondering, then down around the 6th para the lightbulb went off when he said “a diagnostic agent which tells you what your application is doing” that I stopped and re oriented my brain.