the more people complain about telemetry, the more i know I'm right not to be concerned. if it is a problem for you, go back to emacs 19 or vi or whatever and

the more people complain about telemetry, the more i know I'm right not to be concerned. if it is a problem for you, go back to emacs 19 or vi or whatever and leave the rest of us alone. alternatively, go climb the ladder at any company that collects this terrible scourge of invaluable personal explosive data and get them to stop. I'm ok with this. and just like you didn’t like me belittling your position, as i did above, i’ll kindly ask that you understand my reaction here to being told (without asking, by the way) that telemetry is an unparalleled bad thing. i wish people who are convinced that some illuminati-like cadre is behind all of these things were employed at large companies which could collect this info. there is nowhere nearly enough cohesion between employees to make anything useful out of all the data collected, much less to act upon it, outside of the developers trying to chase the bug that has haunted them for 36 months, and the UX team trying desperately to reduce the amount of choices in menus. i mean, manage a few projects with people who are all on board with the effort - even those groups are hard to keep focused, most of the time. these companies use this data for the stated purposes; to help make their products better. if i could explain some of the technical considerations behind the apparently odd choice of data to collect, it would make a lot more sense, but i’m pretty awful at communicating, and even if i weren’t, and i were able to succinctly convey that info, i feel like most of you would just argue with me anyway.