Re: But it is quite good!
Depends on the telemetry, reporting operating environment system specs can be useful if you have ever run into bugs caused by the abysmal intel integrated display drivers or similar crappy driver issues (the ones direct from intel are the least buggy, the OEM whitelabeled versions dished out by vendors tend to be a few versions behind or broken but do display the oh so important company logo for half a second as you hammer "Next"), and data like that i have no issues with being collected and analysed its no different to what the ECU does in most modern cars and if it helps recreate a weird bug or let you see the correlation then its useful.
The rest of "telemetry" is doublespeak for behavioural surveillance, how long did you spend looking for the option in the menu, which button is pressed most often, what is the most used feature buried in a menu, how long was the window in focus, what percentage of users are skipping upgrades, how often does a term related to program appear in a search query string, and out of that list the only thing i can see a legit use for is the one to do with upgrades skipped, everything else can and should be done with small focus groups, not a co-opted userbase, especially for the likes of piriform who used to make good (enough) software, got annoying with pro version nag screens, then were acquired and now just ape the AV industry and hide whole sale data capture and snooping as utility (Im looking at you CCleaner!)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
