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Should I enable telemetry?
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Generally yes unless you have specific privacy concerns. It helps developers know what features people are using so they can be prioritized for development and maintenance, issues people encounter, hardware they're running on, etc.
I'm reminded of Firefox removing ALSA support a few years ago because according the their telemetry no one used it. This made all of the people using ALSA very mad - but they all had telemetry disabled so how was Mozilla supposed to know?