Comment by 47282847

Anyone on the path potentially learns something about your system and your software use.

Your IP during connection exposes your rough location.

Crash logs rarely are completely anonymized so both together can additionally serve as a way to re-identify the user.

The only way to properly transmit telemetry data would be Tor. And no, even then I don’t want my tools to report back my use. It’s simply not required, and data minimization is part of my set of ethics, and I’m happy that EU/GDPR sees it the same way. Not all data that you think is worth something to you is morally right to collect. You send data somewhere, even just to check for updates - ask me first. I do not want my hammer to report back how many nails I hammered in. I don’t want my software to reach out to the world without my consent.