> Can someone explain how we managed to have programming languages and toolchain development for half a century without using telemetry, but somehow we need it

> Can someone explain how we managed to have programming languages and toolchain development for half a century without using telemetry, but somehow we need it today in our tools? Back in the 90s in companies I worked for, attempting to add any kind of phone-home code was a fireable offense. Or at least, would get you a very stiff talking to from a few very high up people in the organization. You'd never even think of doing that again. Customer trust and privacy was paramount. As we all know, spyware slowly started creeping into end user apps and later became a flood. Now it's difficult to find any consumer app that doesn't continuously leak everything the user does. It's become so normalized that now even developers tools seem to think it's somehow ok to leak user data.