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Them being able to tell how many active users they have means that they track this in the Atom app. Atom never told me about this during startup. I'm personally not bothered by this, but I know that a lot of techies are against phoning-home practices. Is there anybody here who IS bothered by this?

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It's a package called 'metrics' you can disable through Preferences -> Packages. Been in there from the get-go.

Edit: Not saying I like this "freedom advancement" much either; even databases like InfluxDB defaults to phoning home nowadays -- but this one is pretty simple to both find and disable.

>Atom never told me about this during startup.

Yes it did: http://i.imgur.com/rVEs02x.png

AFAIK they use Google Analytics. I've only used Atom once when it was introduced, but I think it told me that on startup. There was also an option to disable it.

Perhaps it's the package update checker? I have it turned on by default and couldn't find an option to turn it off (assuming it's different from the Atom update checker, which updates the editor).

The more people put up with it, the worse it's going to get.

It's pretty much expected at this point. I gave up online privacy last decade.

I didn't give up my online privacy yet. Apps have no business to phone home. Little Snitch FTW ;)

Yep which is why I'm not going to use their editor. I doubt they miss me and I don't miss them so no hard feelings either way.

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