And even then, you know my stance from previous occurrences of telemetry say in KDE…
In my view it’s issue regardless, because if mechanism for that exists - it takes one “oopsie-doopsie” by some dev, or even intentional one by corporation itself to flip a switch…even if it would be for a one day until it’s noticed or fixed, you know…
The whole idea of Telemetry makes me sick after years of Windoze 
Here is the rub. Waiting instead of speculating 
Telemetry doesn’t have to be a bad thing the bad thing is usually the one collecting the data. The main issue is I see is the opt out. The argument that opt-in meterics are not useful is because people just cant trust what is being done with the data.
I get this same feeling from my reading. Will be interesting to see how it plays out if Fedora is successful with it then others will join.
So, because of our PTSD, we cannot even think about helping the developers to improve their free product.
OTOH, as @ricklinux has wisely said, how can they provide free software if they cannot earn some money?
Other wise words (or similar):
When they give you something for free, then you are the product.
Free email, free cloud storage, free OS, free Office suite, free artistic software…
Actually, they are not doing a good job with their development. They give us software full of bugs!!! 
Not acceptable! 
How much money are we ready to pay for having a proper, privacy respecting internet browser?
How much money are we ready to pay for having a proper, privacy respecting desktop environment?
Yes!!!1 
And don’t forget that Fedora is basically a beta-test distro for RHEL.
I yet to see any product actually improved by telemetry, in my view that’s absolute 
that more likely than not work in reverse (good example would be Firefox removing seemingly “unused” features by data from Telemetry, making browser worse).
I’ve donated here and a few others I regularly utilize. I’d pay for it in fresh hardware for sure.
This is not a personal argument. Do you believe that the majority of Linux/OSS users donate in any way?
I donate my personal time. How many users report bugs upstream?
That’s a reason to boycott them and don’t use their products.
We don’t have data about this. If some OS devs collect telemetry data, they should publish them as Open Data, to adhere to the OSS spirit.
No, almost every person I’ve ever met in life, literally everywhere, is a cheap jerk who only cares about themselves. Otherwise is very rare.
What would you expect?
We are Human Beings
Whats up with all the Misanthropy? meatbag? 
Feodora is a community distribution. 100 % Free & Open Source.
Red Hat own’s the Fedora trademark and they have several members on the Fedora Council that are employed by Red Hat.
The Fedora Council:
Yeah sure Fedora is a community and opensource project it seems like 2/4 Fedora Council members are always employed by Red Hat reading their role description and currently the two that don’t have being employed by Red Hat in their role description still work for Red Hat, so in reality Red Hat probably has more influence over Fedora than people think even though Red Hat has no control over the decision making with Fedora. That is the reason why I don’t feel it’s a real community project when you compare it to a project like EndeavourOS, Arch or Debian.
What’s your record so far?
Yeah…sort of?
Not only does Redhat provide the funding for it but the majority of the council and the majority of the steering committee is made of RH employees. Fedora has always been constructed in a way that it can’t easily compete with RH itself.
Weekend reading:
The only telemetry (and crash reporting) I would approve of would function like this:
It’s entirely opt-in. When there is a report ready (let’s say on a monthly basis), it is saved to a local file and the user is notified of it. The file is in plain text, and not encrypted. Then the user can inspect this file and, if he wants to, submit it manually by email or upload it to a webpage using a browser or to some server using curl or some other utility. The system with telemetry never dials home, it shouldn’t have this capability integrated in it.
If the user can’t be bothered to inspect the report and just wants to submit it manually, he can set up a script to do so himself, it would be fairly trivial to implement. A guide on how to do it could be on the developer’s gitlab or website.
A downside of this approach could be that the malicious actors could send fake telemetry to render real one useless. That is possible now, too, but much more difficult. There would have to be some mechanism in place to detect fake statistics, and this would have to be fairly complex.
