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This site would be a lot more useful if it talked about _what_ data was collected, rather than just assigning 25 for "Data sensitivity".

It's also pretty interesting to see the comments here, in a privacy focused thread, and contrast them with comments elsewhere about software performance. If you like faster software, developers need to measure it.

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I tried doing that on the tool-specific detail page, but they’re broad categories, e.g. “Device, Environment, Usage” for Next.js. Do you think that’s sufficient?

I saw (after posting) that all the tool specific pages do link specifically to each project's documentation about what telemetry data is collected.

Those categories feel a little too broad to me, especially without clearly stated definitions. "Environment" in particular made me second guess if dev tools were leaking secrets. But, thankfully, the projects I looked at were very clear that they don't collect anything from the shell environments.

Maybe all it really needs is some detail for what's in the category. "Device (OS, core count, available memory)" or "Usage (command, plugins, timing)"?

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