Yeah, this is a huge trust violation. I'm glad people caught on to it quickly. You should not be phoning home with _anything_ from a tool like this without it being 100% opt-in and with huge warnings and alerts. Even if you do it with the most care and best of intentions, a bug could easily compromise security of the people using your tool by uploading too much or the wrong information to your servers. This is not a risk worth taking for you or any potential users of the software.

This is symptomatic of the world we live in now. Some people don't even think twice about spying on their users.

(creator here)

Note that we got the feedback and disabled the collection until we do it right.

Also, it got "caught" in the first comment about that because it was clearly written in a Disclaimer section in the README.

Because, whether or not we like it, the reality is that data collection is the #1 way for a product to eventually work towards profit? And even if it's a totally free, open-source project with no intention of profiting, too many developers feel like analytics is the only way to gather information to improve?

Yeah, I don't agree either. It's annoying.