I always suspected that there was probably significant overlap between users of macros and users who opted out of telemetry. Lesson learned: leaving "yes" checked from now on.
Big Brother has trained you well. ;-)
Yep. Don't vote and nobody will care about your (unexpressed) needs when making decisions.
Well, it would be nice if there is a way to vote or express one's needs via some alternative to having one's usage actively mined for data.
There is mining for data and there is mining for data.
Monitoring which features I use? Opt in.
Monitoring what I do? Uninstall if possible.
I think you are truly in a minority if you'd rather take a survey than have the data collected automatically. There has to be a sane middle ground.
Data collected by a neutral third party without conflicting interests pushing for creative monetization opportunities that's responsible for sufficient annonymisation/aggregation before releasing the data?
You can always refrain to use their technology. There is plenty green grass in the neighboring fields.
I only remember accidentally t turning them on and they getting mad!