We do collect info about app usage, things like which buttons users click. This allows us to focus development time on improving the features that are used most often.
That being said, it's important to us that there is a way to be totally telemetry-less if users don't want any information to be leave their computer. Compared to most other cloud-based sass data science tools where you pretty much have no hope of total privacy, we're proud of the flexibility that we offer.
But of course, we're always open to feedback about how we can continue to improve our practices!
Edit: To remove telemetry, just call:
from mitoinstaller.user_install import go_pro; go_pro();
You can of course fork Mito and turn off telemetry as long as you open source your changes! Go for it - happy to hop on a call and help you get set up with the codebase, if you want. Yay open source!
[1] https://github.com/mito-ds/monorepo/blob/974091b455950c6c50e... [2] https://github.com/mito-ds/monorepo/blob/dev/mitosheet/mitos...
Just want to say that I respect the fact that you built this library, are offering it open source, for free, and want the telemetry on. You are up front and open about it.
Sometimes I think people can get a little entitled with all the work someone else puts in to a project they want to use (not accusing GP of this, speaking generally). As you said, under the license anyone is more than welcome to fork, modify and open source. Yay open source indeed :)