This week one of my tasks is to figure out how to neutralize some telemetry in one of our apps. We had no idea it was there, we do not want to be sending data. Last week, the parent company decided they didn't want to maintain the telemetry server any longer, and got rid of it.
Now the tool has generated thousands of log messages that it can't phone home.
And so it must be silenced, since it is cluttering up the logs, generating false alerts, etc.
The existence of telemetry is the main reasons why I avoid using new software anymore. Really, opt-in, opt-out, it doesn't matter. I can't trust that any of those mechanisms actually work, that if I opt out, an update won't reenable it, or that the data collected is actually limited and anonymized.
Now the tool has generated thousands of log messages that it can't phone home.
And so it must be silenced, since it is cluttering up the logs, generating false alerts, etc.
Please, no more.