Comment 12 for bug 1930914

It's not about 2.6Mb storage space taken. It's about what those 2.6Mb of logic does, how transparent the whole process is and how many potential security vulnerabilities it may introduce due to not having one transparent entry point for activation. You are exactly following Microsoft way to telemetry, where there are multiple toggles around the system but telemetry is already so deeply integrated that you never can be sure if it was completely disabled.

You do benefit not only from your paying customers base but from entire open source community work up to day. Including this portal and all feedback passed automatically/manually from users which run Ubuntu on their hardware. So saying that you don't care about non paying customers and trying to silence further discussion seems a bit arrogant here.

Isn't the fact that you have separate restricted repository backed on the same concept of lack of full trust ? There is whole group of people who e.g don't have Nvidia software on their hardware and they have a choice, why they shouldn't have the same choice with Canonical software ?