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Telemetry, *supposed to be* only sending data that would benefit the user, by helping the developers to understand what the users really need.
Microsoft and Apple abused that term and it became just 'data collection'. FOSS telemetry shouldn't, and usually - hopefully - wouldn't collect unnecessary data, to sell it back as adverts.
So if you trust , I don't see why not to enable it. It just helps the devs, and you too, at the end.
It's all about transparency and giving you the choice to opt in. When it comes to KDE, you can clearly see what is being sent to help the developers. The same cannot be said for Windows and closed source software.
I absolutely love the KDE approach and I always enable telemetry for FOSS apps if I can see what exactly is being sent. Hell, I wouldn't even mind some opt out telemetry if I could see what data the app sends back "home". That's, obviously, if the data sent doesn't violate my privacy significantly
Unless I'm misunderstanding, that's all related to those KDE packages. I'd say if you're a heavy user of Plasma or apps relying on those KDE packages you might as well enable it.
Up to your comfort level though, personally I don't mind for stuff like that. On KDE's community site they have this showing what telemetry is collected for Plasma.
I use KDE which is why I'm interested in this in the first place. I think I'll enable it.
I personally have some telemetry on. Just like you, I like to think I'm helping the devs.
I enabled it all. I read through what they collect and it's all very mild.