>Why should we opt out of the telemetry? Let's imagine the ls command with telemetry. What happens when you make an error like this? $ ls all-the-pr0n ls:

>Why should we opt out of the telemetry? Let's imagine the ls command with telemetry. What happens when you make an error like this? $ ls all-the-pr0n ls: cannot access 'all-the-pr0n': No such file or directory Um, what did I just tell the ls vendor? Who are they sharing that data with? > Telemetry should always be opt-in Opt in needs to be very precise and spell out exactly what is being shipped. For a lot of command line tools, telemetry is going to create more problems than it is worth. > I wonder how much of existing telemetry already crosses the "informed consent" requirement threshold. This is the question we all have to wonder about.