> I suspect some application developers should rethink when then need to use network connections or DNS lookups And I suspect the commercial ones were just ord

> I suspect some application developers should rethink when then need to use network connections or DNS lookups And I suspect the commercial ones were just ordered by someone above them (e.g. Firefox; they'll die if they don't bow out to Google's surreptitious data gathering needs) and most OSS ones are over-eager to get telemetry or... I don't know what else? I applaud articles like these. They point out the problems. Hopefully more scrutiny leads to more restraint.