• wylinka@szmer.info
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    6 days ago

    There’s nothing wrong with telemetry, it’s not supposed to contain identifying or private data. It’s information about feature usage, crashes etc. and it’s very useful for developers. Especially with open-source software, the devs are generally not your enemies, they just want to improve their products. If some apps spy on you under the guise of telemetry, that’s a different issue.

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      6 days ago

      Right, but most of the time it’s for things that do not need to know where I am or any of my private data.

      And then all of that conveniently gathered and stored information is just waiting for a bad actors (including corporations) to scoop it up.