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Let's be fair and admit that the typical Java app doesn't have all the features of a modern Electron app.

For instance, I downloaded Atom and after starting it, it wanted to connect to atom.io and then Google analytics. Now Google not only knows which web pages one visits, but also which apps one uses. Electron is win/win - for web developers and Google, of course.




Hah. In fairness though, most apps do want to report back usage stats and other telemetry these days. That doesn't sound entirely unreasonable.... though it's conventional for desktop apps to ask first (perhaps one reason people developers like web apps, the social conventions are different)


It is not allowed in the EU to gather data without informing the user and (in some cases) requiring opt-in. I think this is a very sane decision, even if it makes developers uncomfortable, because it is a privacy issue.

It is not usual to gather telemetry on the desktop, with perhaps the exception of some AppStore apps. Of course now that Microsoft got greedy and web developers are starting to develop desktop apps, we might see a different trend.


That depends on the data. I believe Atom uses the analytics privacy feature that deletes the last digits of the IP. That way it doesn't fall under the privacy directive.




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