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Appreciate the transparency. But nitpick about terminology: telemetry over HTTP can never be "completely anonymous" by any stretch because of users' IP address being tied to it. Unless you're sending analytics over Tor...?

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Flutter team member here. Valid nitpick, and I can confirm that we scrub any personally identifiable information (PII) from our telemetry, so while the IP is sent over HTTP, it's not stored in our system. We even go so far as to scrub the exception message, since it may contain PII.

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