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Comment by Kiro | Hacker News Reader

OT but am I the only one always opting in on telemetry prompts? I want the developers to get as much info possible to improve the app and fix issues.

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I think more people would if the telemetry was not using Google and Yandex to get the analytics and instead used their own servers and API that no third-parties have access to. Also if there had been more discussion in the first place before implementing this opt-in telemetry.

Yes - my problem with telemetry is never to hide from the app's developer, it's to hide from scum like Google and Facebook, or even "innocent" paid analytics providers like Mixpanel because while those don't profit off my data, they still concentrate it into a single place which would be a problem if leaked or misused.

    s/if/when/

By new management, broke developers, advertisers, data brokers, criminals in government, etc.

Can't argue with you there. I actually didn't know apps used Google for that. I always just presumed it went to their own servers.

Fantastic, that's your choice. Does this shed light on the subject?

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