"Agitators". We don't trust telemetry precisely because of comments like that. World is full of people like you who apparently see absolutely nothing wrong with exfiltrating identifying information from other people's computers. We have to actively resist such attempts, they are constant, never ending and it only seems to get worse over time but you dismiss it all as "cultural opposition" to telemetry.
For the record I'm NOT OK with being profiled, measured or otherwise studied in any way without my explicit consent. That even extends to the unethical human experiments that corporations run on people and which they euphemistically call A/B tests. I don't care if it's Google or a hobbyist developer, I will block it if I can and I will not lose a second of sleep over it.
> World is full of people like you who apparently see absolutely nothing wrong with exfiltrating identifying information from other people's computers.
True. But such people are like cockroaches. They know what they are doing will be unpopular with their targets, so they keep it hidden. This is easy enough to do in closed designs, car manufacturers selling your driving habits to insurance companies and health monitoring app selling menstrual cycle data to retailers selling to women.
Compare that do say Debian and RedHat. They too collect performance data. But the code is open source, Debian has repeatable builds so you can be 100% sure that is the code in use, and every so often someone takes a look it. Guess what, the data they send back is so unidentifiable it satisfies even the most paranoid of their 1000's of members.
All it takes is a little bit of sunlight to keep the cockroaches at bay, and then we can safely let the devs collect the data they need to improve code. And everyone benefits.
I fully support the schemes for telemetry that already happens. It’s just obnoxious that there’s no apparent reason behind the support of one kind of anonymous telemetry versus another. For every 1 person who digests the package repo’s explanation of the telemetry strategy, there are 19 who feel okay with GitHub having all the telemetry and none of the open source repos they host because of vibes.
For the record I'm NOT OK with being profiled, measured or otherwise studied in any way without my explicit consent. That even extends to the unethical human experiments that corporations run on people and which they euphemistically call A/B tests. I don't care if it's Google or a hobbyist developer, I will block it if I can and I will not lose a second of sleep over it.