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No one is asking for this. Please stop.
That's not why it was made. Data collection is a titanically large industry. Why just collect data from specific programs when you can literally just set up a screen recorder to collect all data?
This is what happens when people are flippant about data collection. First, data collection isn't even there. Next, it's there, but is off by default, then it's on by default but you can opt out, then only certain aspects are opt out, flash forward 10 years and here we are.
This stuff isn't coming out of nowhere, it's a slow build because consumers consistently allow more and more egregious privacy violations to slip past because they "don't care, the big corporations already have the data"
Then they came for me...
I get it, my tinfoil hat is showing. But, am I wrong? If people said "wait, this is creepy, don't let this slide" when data collection first became a thing, I really do believe recall wouldn't have happened.
To be clear, I fully agree with your comment I replied to. It just reminded me of the poem by Martin Niem”ller.
We said it, they didn't listen, we switched to Linux
If enough people voted with their feet they would have listened
Right?????