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> what is the reason to not allow a vendor to see which settings page you visit?

Because it's not their fucking computer!

Nothing about this is necessary.

Nothing here is "blurry".






The shitty thing isn’t phoning home, the shitty thing is doing what’s not described on the label.

If a piece of software says “this will do X if you run it” and then it does X then I don’t see the complaint (yes I realize lots of software uses dark patterns or doesn’t say what it does, especially windows, but _in principle_ I don’t think anonymous telemetry with good clear opt out/in is evil).




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