https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/6145
My favorite part is when someone figures out "telemetry" includes the MAC address, and the dev team just goes completely silent.
My favorite part is when someone figures out "telemetry" includes the MAC address, and the dev team just goes completely silent.
There's an honest, non sneaky way of gathering usage information: pay for rigorous testing and price the cost into the product. Telemetry is lazy, invasive, and user hostile by default. Every bit of information acquired from users should be given with informed consent or not collected at all.
It's hard to really stand up to that kind of situation.
Hashed MAC address: a cryptographically (SHA256) anonymous and unique ID for a machine.
Although I disagree that they should have this to begin with, it being anonymized is still a pretty important detail.
The fact that they are taking uniquely identifiable information from you, and the fact that their company is as deep in the Ad game as Google, is more than damning enough.