Telemetry comes with an app on the GNOME Software

[Technologies.CLUB Editorial Board]

Hello,

as it turns out, sometimes, there is telemetry even on Linux.

I've just found, that I have, without my knowledge or consent - installed
qml-module-org-kde-userfeedback - which is KDE user feedback agent. I was able to track
this down relatively easily, since I don't use KDE and reverse checking dependencies found
it to be installed because of Kate - text/code editor, which I like, but I didn't expect
this, really.

After I've removed all telemetry libs (like libkuserfeedbackcore1 etc.), as they were more
than 1 - Kate was none to be found and was unable to run.
So, I've removed Kate altogether. 

You can reproduce by installing Kate from the GNOME Software, then you may run
apt search telemetry
(or similar search with your distro's package manager)

and check for qml-module-org-kde-userfeedback - 

check if it is in [installed] state, and then check dependenices - i.e. what app needs the
telemetry app, you can do it like this:

apt-cache rdepends packagename
(on apt based distros)

Kate with this telemetry should either :
- be removed altogether,
- or at the very least - GNOME Software should clearly notify the user, that it comes with
telemetry!

Thanks.