Ah, this is a nice find! I've used Santa[1] to accomplish this with a silent block, which always felt like overkill when I was using it for solely that purpose.
A glucose tablet and a glucagon shot can both be used in emergencies, but they are best used to treat different levels of emergencies. You can take a glucose tablet if you're coherent and conscious, but when you're incoherent or passed out from a severe hypoglycemia, someone else administering a glucagon shot is a lot easier and safer.
> In many cases they are already syncing a copy of your passwords.
No, that gets them the full way there. They have your 2FA codes, and if you use Chrome and opt into it syncing passwords for you (passwords.google.com), this gives them both pieces of the puzzle.
Not only should telemetry be optional, but a failure to send it should not result in the application refusing to run¹. With a host-level block of PostHog, the server crashes with:
1. https://github.com/google/santa