Applications should not have network/internet access by default. Operating systems should be competing on features that put you in control[0]. To do anything l

Applications should not have network/internet access by default. Operating systems should be competing on features that put you in control[0]. To do anything less than blocking every connection until you've allowed it is putting a lot of faith in software (vendors) that they have already demonstrated they will abuse. It's nice that some software grants you the privilege of asking it politely to not do a telemetry[1], I guess. But it (and the vendor) already demonstrated they are happy to breach your trust (and, arguably, your security) for their own arbitrary reasons. So many of these tools present themselves as free software. But if you're not in control of it, it's not free. [0] Unfortunately, it's really nice when you control the operating system, productivity software suite, game development studios & publishers, email, world's best and most helpful good boy with your best interests at heart online chat assistant, scalable web services provider, programming languages, software forge, proprietary 3D graphics stack, laptops, game consoles, ... [1] What does `telemetry = no` even mean anyway? Does the tool report that telemetry was disabled? Does the tool now do nothing on a network that isn't explicitly declared, or what is required to perform the actual work you ran it to do?