But should developers not be allowed to have it in their software? So long as it has a label “this software sends usage stats, if you don’t like it don’t use it, or don’t opt in” should that be banned? Or is that acceptable?
If the user develops something they can do it however they want. It’s not “theirs” because it’s installed on their machine. They can’t even control how it runs on their machine short of sandboxing it. They can choose to run it as the developer wanted or not at all.
You didn’t answer the question: should it be somehow banned?
