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It's why people are making these assumptions about the term "telemetry". In certain circles it usually means spyware. One of those circles includes front-end we
by handrous 5y ago
It's why people are making these assumptions about the term "telemetry". In certain circles it usually means spyware. One of those circles includes front-end web, which is pretty well-represented on HN.
[EDIT] and, especially, that's why they're jumping to the conclusion that github is gearing up to do more spying on its users, which is the part that I think people are bothered by, not the existence of this software package.
- cogman10 5y agoOpenTelemitry isn't useful for spying purposes. It just isn't. If github wanted to spy on users they have way more direct methods that don't involve collecting the time your browser executes a function or waits on an AJAX request.
- handrous 5y agoCool, that's fine, I was just explaining why it's getting that reaction from people. Telemetry means different things to different people and a (quite new) use is basically just a euphemism for "watching over people's shoulder while they use our software"—but, among some people, that's the main use they encounter, so they assumed that's what this is.