Pankkake

The closest that comes to mind are QSFP cables.

I believe in the States it’s considered a federal crime to throw someone else’s mail away. It’s probably a crime in other countries too.

Your Mileage May Vary

I have one of those, it won’t work with my Linux though :/

To me, telemetry would be like a sofa company wanting to put some cameras in your home to see if you’re using the sofa the way they thought you would. It just feels… off.

“90% of crashes happen right after the player uses a grenade”.

Imo, a simple opt-in crash report gets the job done. Technically it is telemetry, but a crash report is more justified than a “where have you clicked” report.

telemetry data for software from reputable companies does not get sold

There’s just no trust in companies to not sell my data. I cannot trust Microsoft nor Google nor any other company to not sell my data, having seen the shenanigans every single company is willing to pull off to get a cent more a year.