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Re:Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first by barnabee on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @06:50PM (#44967331)
No. It's spyware. Software authors/vendors have no right to collect telemetry and it ought to be illegal to have any such data collection and/or exfiltration running on a user's device by default or without explicit, opt-in consent.
Re:Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first by rendx on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @07:26PM (#44967544)
It already is in Europe thanks to GDPR. Just not enough formal complaints or lawsuits (yet); e.g. IP addresses are explicitly Personally Identifiable Information.