Producing more evidence is left as an exercise at this point.
Edit: no more posts allowed for me. Reply below:
That’s exactly what telemetry is, today. Grammarly built a whole business on this. Copilot, etc.
Refusing to believe that times have changed because you’ve not been paying attention, is not a compelling argument.
And to reply to your reply:
> That’s exactly what telemetry is
The common understanding of telemetry is sending metadata about how people are using software. That is, things like "this button was clicked", "this feature was used", etc. That is my understanding of the word anyway.
Either way, this is a bit of a boring semantic discussion; my point is just that there is nuance to these things, and that this article doesn't really tell us anything concrete beyond "the network is used". Well, okay ... but for what, exactly? Because that does matter.
The article states that text content is being sent, and that it makes sense according to the touted feature. Enough details given what we already know, though stingy.
More info would be useful to folks less familiar with the subject however the core issue here is somewhat old news.