GitHub opts all CLI users into telemetry collection whether they want it or not
Users of GitHub's command-line interface (CLI) who value privacy, beware. The Microsoft-owned code-hosting platform has quietly begun collecting pseudonymous client-side telemetry from CLI users and enabled it by default.
There was no standalone blog post or announcement of the change, just an update to GitHub's CLI documentation adding a telemetry page, release notes mentioning pseudonymous telemetry, and a burst of updates to the CLI repo over the past week folding telemetry features into the ...
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