I hear you. The goal of our analytics collection is to know the # of active users of our product. So, we send an event to Google Analytics when a command is run or periodic pings for long running (> 1 hr) commands. You can disable it by setting the flag --enable-analytics=false. You can see further discussion on this matter here: https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/107#issue-311155675

Lastly, everything is open source. So, you are free to read the code and modify and use your modified version if that's what you prefer. xref: https://github.com/kubedb/operator/blob/0.9.0/pkg/cmds/root....