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In production, agreed. In beta, I’ll accept it. I feel that the term beta gets abused a lot, but in what I believe is it’s proper meaning, there are a lot of inherent factors both parties are agreeing to; increased risk of error and data loss, and debugging flags that generate more data for the singular purpose of improving the product. That’s exactly what should be in the privacy policy and explicitly stated upon install. Anything short of that puts me firmly in the hell-no category with you.



With you here on this. Telemetry is a really important concern and I get why people don't like it, but fundamentally the expectations on a beta product surely have to be different in that. The thing is still in development. T




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