Trying to aggregate the various issues into one to collect feedback.

I invite everyone to read the SponsorLink announcement to understand the intention behind it. No nefarious purpose, I promise! 🙏. I also wrote a follow-up post with additional context based on feedback so far.

With that in mind, I'm obviously open to suggestions that help achieve both your goals and mine :)

SponsorLink is now OSS too

An improved and more privacy-preserving implementation could use your feedback

NOTE: 4.20.2 removes SponsorLink since it breaks MacOS/Linux restore. I'll take the opportunity to collect more feedback.
The underlying issue still needs addressing, IMHO.

NOTE: SponsorLink won't be coming back until I improve on the suggestions made here. In particular, those mentioned in the announcement on OSS'ing it