They know they cannot stop those determined. So they worded some parts to try to make it sound like “it will inconvenience you and Linux is hard” so that people are like “Ok, I will not do it if it is hard”.

Reddit lasted longer than Digg.

The addams family

Very basic summary: when they changed their privacy policy to include telemetry, everyone forked it.

Example: audacity

“Come with me and you will be in an API situation”