> It's pretty clear from the article that this was a bug, and telemetry requests failing was not intended to break the rest of the browser. If telemetry didn't

> It's pretty clear from the article that this was a bug, and telemetry requests failing was not intended to break the rest of the browser. If telemetry didn't exist as core part of the browser, nothing would've broken. Therefore, the telemetry itself is the direct cause of the bug. It was, at best, poorly handled and too deeply integrated into the browser's core function.