I believe it's no longer optional on the new UDM and UDM Pro devices

... but the telemetry isn't, IIRC.

Is it not? I disabled diagnostic and analytics reporting, though it does occasionally ask me to turn it back on.

Is there additional telemetry that cannot be disabled?

When they pushed the firmware, iirc the telemetry was done without notice, opted in and enabled by default, and there was no way to actually opt out until _another firmware update after the uproar_

Ubiquiti has never cared about security, if they did they wouldn't have been scammed for $40,000,000 via a literal scam email.

If Ubiquiti staff has the non-existent procedures and corporate security for this to happen, they surely don't care about your privacy or security.

They didn't scammed, they washed some of the investors money. These kind of attacks are ridiculously hard to believe.

So what is the alternative nowadays?

Got it! Thank you for that context. I'm pretty sporadic about updates so I more than likely missed the gap when it was enabled by default and not available to be disabled.

Not cool to do that :(.

I'd argue the continued "ask you to turn it on" just in the hopes that you might eventually do it to shut it up is also a terrible antipattern.