Comment by ryandrake
7 hours ago
This got me thinking: Are there prominent examples of open source projects that 1. collect telemetry, 2. without a way to opt-out (or obfuscating / making it difficult to opt-out)? This practice seems to be specific to corporate software development.
Why is it that startups and commercial software developers seem to be the only ones obsessed with telemetry? Why do they need it to "optimize user journeys" but open source projects do just fine while flying blind?
open source projects are usually creating something for themselves so it's much easier to know what to build when you are the user
whereas, commercial software has a disconnect between who are the users and developers are