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why actually? what does it send?


In the past it has sent command line arguments and the path of the current working directory, among other things, according to comments on that issue. Even if Microsoft doesn't intend to deliberately collect sensitive data, they don't seem to think it's worth putting much effort into preventing accidental data leaks from broken anonymization, unreliable opt-out mechanism, etc.




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