Software has always been developed that way and it has never been a problem. It’s only recently that developers somehow got the idea that they are entitled to perform surveillance on their customers. It’s nonsense.

I'd consider it reasonable if there was some way to opt out, and if they made it clear what telemetry was sent - that should be in the readme, I shouldn't have to trawl through the code to find it.

Note that I'm saying this as someone that generally doesn't mind providing telemetry - but they need to be clear.

In order to use those you agree to terms in advance, and agreed to data processing. That is an opt-in.

Microsoft being anal about GDPR? It's under investigation with billions in GDPR fines pending.

FAANG are also knowingly and willingly breaching the GDPR to this day with all sorts of products.

Just try to exercise your GPDR-given rights as an EU citizen and try getting ALL of your data from e.g. Facebook.

Not the subset of it that you are allowed to download, ALL of it.

You'll be laughed at really, really hard then shown the door.

Don't get me started on Microsoft.