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Re:No telemetry in the Rust compiler: metrics without betray... by mike_hock on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:53PM (#36960669)
No, we should not invent a euphemism to dodge the bad associations with the real thing.

There's no such thing as "being transparent" about telemetry in OSS because I don't feel like reading a README for every single command that I apt install to see if it has anti-features.

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