Since PostHog is a commercial user-tracking product, such an argument seems rather self-serving. And justified by utilitarianism? In a moral swamp then ...
VSCode and Insomnia(https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/pull/5416) taken as electron-based App examples are doing the same with an opt-out telemetry.
As said by them: "Visual Studio Code collects telemetry data, which is used to help understand how to improve the product. For example, this usage data helps to debug issues, such as slow start-up times, and to prioritize new features"
What are your thoughts on that?
But it rather sounds that you have made up your mind already, no?
I'm not a fan of VScode, I'm a proud JetBrains user.
I'm only trying to have a landscape on this fact, Thanks for your thoughts btw