And at the same time, MacOS phones home every time you run anything, and logs exactly what you ran, on what you ran it, and where you ran it. Inb4: "This isn't a privacy issue, it's a security feature".
To be completely honest, I was about to, but got distracted. Thanks for linking it.
I think the distinction nowadays is what happens with the data after it has been collected. We are way past data being collected.
Running on linux, with software I can to a fairly large extent control, I beg to differ. This is also the default, and not some crazy power-user iptables/proxy filter shenaningans either.