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Well, no - you assuming it's rhetorical when I clearly stated it's not is snarky.... As I said, there were two scenarios that I outlined which were unlikely -

Well, no - you assuming it's rhetorical when I clearly stated it's not is snarky.... As I said, there were two scenarios that I outlined which were unlikely - Google/Github posting my text editor usage publicly on their website, linked to my name, and employees of those companies individually trawling through. The scenario of them mining for trends in the data, in order to improve the software, I'm perfectly fine with. The scenario of the government being involved - I agree that's bad - however, we haven't seen any indications that is true for the wide public. Can you actually come up with any other scenarios that are both 1. probably and 2. worrying?

shittyanalogy 13y ago
You don't understand, it's not about "probably" it's about absolute. Just because a 3rd party probably won't do anything that could harm me doesn't mean that I should trust them for any reason. This is one of the main points of the free in free software. It's not about tin-foil hats or being uptight, it's about my-personal-data-privacy and network-user-best-privacy-practices. At this point, you either don't get it, or you don't think I should have the right to absolute data privacy if and purely because I want it.