as long as the ToS doesn't reflect a change of heart, this does nothing. In enterprise environments, we can't base anything on blog posts, it's the ToS that matters.
ps: SOC2 does not inspire confidence as the whole of EAA needs to follow GDPR.
ps: SOC2 does not inspire confidence as the whole of EAA needs to follow GDPR.
This doesn't seem like you're pumping the breaks "completely".
It's baffling to me that you would try to run telemetry on self-hosted PAYING customers. Seems totally backwards.
This means they would have to change the ToS before trying to implement it again, which means the current result isn't moving the goalposts at all and is not a step forwards to the original solution.
See: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/... and https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/...