Telemetry is not remote access, much less root access, which does not even exist on typical phones. Phone apps are sandboxed by the OS and can only collect information that the OS allows them to collect. It may of course be possible to abuse this limited information for tracking (and that abuse should absolutely be called out when it occurs), but it’s not the same thing.
Irrelevant. Collecting telemetry such as Mozilla does isn't remotely like having remote root access to people's phones.
That's exactly the kind of derangement I am talking about. One gets the impression that the typical HN commenter has never worked on a software project of any consequence at all.
One often gets the impression that large swathes of people (even on here) don't realize that software today is more complex than software from 1993