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I think you’re being misled by insane JavaScript bundles re how much information can be conveyed in small compressed text files.

Capturing window titles and how long they have focus over a weeks logging takes a couple bytes of text…

> it doesn't even amount to a megabyte (uploaded) in the last week.

That seems like a lot for a piece of software that doesn't have to send anything whatsoever in order to do its job.

Hey great I was just wondering if there was a little snitch for windows

https://www.glasswire.com

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is 970KB uncompressed, 228KB with bzip2. You may be able to compress the whole thing in 1MB with some effort.

I’m a little surprised no one has MitM the telemetry service and reverse engineered what it’s sending.

Assuming they're using halfway decent cryptography, then doing this is nontrivial. But there are probably people working on it, and if so, they may eventually succeed.

Sounds like a lot to me.