> but this is ultimately placing the convenience of the developers ahead of the privacy and autonomy of the users.
Is it though? Putting aside the issue of whether you trust the person collecting telemetry for a second. You can collect telemetry completely anonymized. You don't have store IPs or any sort of personal identifier. I know a certain crowd still won't like it but in practice how does that harm the privacy of the user?
> You can collect telemetry completely anonymized.
You can't.
You can decide to discard identifying information (although only if you aggregate and don't insert some sort of "anonymous" identifier), sure. But you're still going to collect it.
So it all boils down to trusting not only the developer, but any company or interest that might acquire the developer or product in the future. And I think it has been repeatedly demonstrated that this trust is not well-placed.
Is it though? Putting aside the issue of whether you trust the person collecting telemetry for a second. You can collect telemetry completely anonymized. You don't have store IPs or any sort of personal identifier. I know a certain crowd still won't like it but in practice how does that harm the privacy of the user?