> Later this summer, you’ll see the option to participate in our telemetry system and help improve 1Password. You don’t need to take any action right now, and we won’t collect any usage data without your awareness and consent first.
Developing modern software without being able to observe its operation is simply not realistic. Telemetry of this sort is an important driver of software quality and product improvement.
I’m convinced that people who talk this way are not recognizing the important distinctions between google-analytics-style tracking software that is just trying to squeeze more money out of users and observability-style tracking that is a key part of the software development lifecycle. If you refuse to acknowledge any value in the latter then you deserve the buggy software that results.