Hi. I’m the one who made consoledonottrack.com (now expired and squatted) and originally specified and promoted this.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200613155957/https://consoledo...

I abandoned the project. Opting out of telemetry tells developers that opting us in automatically without consent is OK. It’s not.

Spyware is spyware even if it has an off switch.

Patch it out. Fork it. Don’t use spyware. Name and shame developers that accept pay checks to build spyware for corporations. Make it an economically bad choice to accept such jobs by poisoning the google results for the names of people who do this. Make them ashamed.

The one thing you DON’T want to do is validate their unethical model by opting out when you never opted in.