FYI: Kite as a company had a backlash from the community after they acquired popular Python packages and injected their spyware and ads. So far they've learnt from that lesson, but who knows if they'll stay that way.
I was prepared to give Kite another shot but seeing that checkbox just made me lose confidence. Caddy almost got destroyed by this! Please please please reconsider and make telemetry opt-in, you don't have enough goodwill given Kite's history with exfiltration, and the product has access to too much vital information to be playing around with users trust like this.
https://github.com/atom-minimap/minimap/issues/588
https://github.com/autocomplete-python/autocomplete-python/i...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23160881
I suppose I should add that we have no interest in the competition or which product is better, but we have a strong interest in preserving the integrity of HN threads, and the community demands that of us.