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Re:Star Citizen developers intend to drop DirectX support an... by gpm on Sunday March 19, 2017 @01:08PM (#13908278)
You don't need to audit the code to know if something sends telemetry. For many things (such as your kernel) you can rely on reputation/quickly searching through github issues. For others you can rely on packet sniffing.

I'm pretty confident that the only things I use regularly on my computer (not counting my phone here) that send telemetry are

- Firefox (opt out, but prompts you)

- Visual Studio Code (opt out, doesn't prompt you, requires re-opting out on updates)

- rustup (not sure if opt in or out, don't mind if it's recording telemetry)

Re:Star Citizen developers intend to drop DirectX support an... by steveklabnik on Sunday March 19, 2017 @04:48PM (#13909544)
I don't remember if we turned rustup's on, but we must not have, because everyone felt very strongly it should be opt-in.