"Telemetry" is not "sending the contents of your documents" (or at least, not necessarily so). This comment kind of demonstrates my point about the complete lack of nuance in these conversations.
And to reply to your reply:
> That’s exactly what telemetry is
The common understanding of telemetry is sending metadata about how people are using software. That is, things like "this button was clicked", "this feature was used", etc. That is my understanding of the word anyway.
Either way, this is a bit of a boring semantic discussion; my point is just that there is nuance to these things, and that this article doesn't really tell us anything concrete beyond "the network is used". Well, okay ... but for what, exactly? Because that does matter.
That’s what it meant a few years ago to me as well. But has expanded in practice. Yes this is too much focus on a single word.
The article states that text content is being sent, and that it makes sense according to the touted feature. Enough details given what we already know, though stingy.
More info would be useful to folks less familiar with the subject however the core issue here is somewhat old news.
And to reply to your reply:
> That’s exactly what telemetry is
The common understanding of telemetry is sending metadata about how people are using software. That is, things like "this button was clicked", "this feature was used", etc. That is my understanding of the word anyway.
Either way, this is a bit of a boring semantic discussion; my point is just that there is nuance to these things, and that this article doesn't really tell us anything concrete beyond "the network is used". Well, okay ... but for what, exactly? Because that does matter.