> isn’t telemetry a valid tool for software projects to gain valuable insights into how their product is being used and thus how to improve it? "Valid" is doin

> isn’t telemetry a valid tool for software projects to gain valuable insights into how their product is being used and thus how to improve it? "Valid" is doing a lot of work here. Trivially, telemetry can provide insights. That's obvious. But how are users supposed to divine which insights the telemetry is supposed to provide? What if the data-collector doesn't know what they're looking for, and is just scraping everything? > the spirit of “telemetry by default is bad” and I don’t really agree. You're entitled to your view. My view is that telemetry (i.e. remotely observing what I do on my computer) is definitely "bad", if I don't consent to it explicitly.