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as an aside, i found this bit from the link for https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows:

> Some build-time tools will send telemetry to Microsoft by default.

can we please stop collecting telemetry by default and ask instead? i think it's a relatively easy feature to do and not much friction for users.

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That is exactly how MS used to have it. I think they had the numbers on the reality of how many people said yes and I suspect it was terrible. So they forced the issue. Unfortunately not for the better. I wonder if they are really wasting resources though. Would a small variance really hurt what they think is going on? Do they really need a million plus number of samplers? If I remember my stats classes, once you get past 1k or so your well into diminishing returns territory.

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