Comment by hilariously

The user doesn't conflate the two, the developers do, and that's why we turn off telemetry, because its damn close to tracking.

Knowing what (vulnerable) version of software a user is using transmitted in the clear was absolutely a part of the NSA monitoring error information from windows crash logs https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/08/nsa_collects_... - so forgive me if I do not trust the developer to know what makes me unsafe or not.

If you enable telemetry by default I will do my best to never use your product.