I love the knee-jerk hostile reactions to any sort of phoning home by an application. They&#x27;ve provided extensive explanations on what is collected, why they&#x27;re collecting it, who has access, what it&#x27;s for, and even the code that does the actual collecting and it still isn&#x27;t enough for people.<p>While I&#x27;m against this type of thing typically, this information is exactly what someone who is concerned about it needs to see, and if they don&#x27;t want to be involved they include the opt-out on the very same page. I don&#x27;t see how this could get any better, this could be held up as a gold standard for Microsoft and Google moving forward.<p>This type of data is invaluable to developers, I can&#x27;t tell you how frustrating it is that so many people now refuse to share it because of overblown privacy concerns. The data is anonymized and no one cares enough about what you&#x27;re doing to de-anonymize it.<p>There are real threats to your privacy out there and spending time on stuff like this just adds to the noise.