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It's worth mentioning that an excellent FOSS alternative is LuLu -- https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html or https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu [last commit a week ago!]
> "it’s very, very valuable data if you care about the customer experience. [...] What can we do as developers to prevent customer experience from becoming adversarial?"
Pay money for the very very valuable data, instead of taking it and trying to hide behind legalese and finger-pointing and distraction and affront. If studying how people use your thing adds value to your company, run a usability lab where you pay people to study how they use your thing. Contact a company with a lot of users and arrange to give them discounts in exchange for data, agree up front what data will be shared and how it will be used. Offer discounts like "Kindle with ads is cheaper than Kindle". Make it opt-in with limited things you collect and what you do with it, and be trustworthy enough that people believe you only do that.
Microsoft PowerShell collects telemetry and it's opt-out, which is annoying for a shell/programming language. But there is a public help document about what is collected and how to opt-out[1] and the source code is on GitHub[2]. Even then I wouldn't be surprised if that was the proverbial straw which broke the camel's back. As developers keep abusing people's trust and taking liberties, something will be.
[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...
[2] https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/src/Sys...
There is open source driver for tablet from these brands.
https://github.com/OpenTabletDriver/OpenTabletDriver