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by gguevaraa 2166 days ago
Although not entirely unbelievable, I would imagine there's some typical metric inflation going on[0].

[0]: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-27/everything-fake-ex...

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tweet quoted from the article:

>No one has figured out how to count logged-out mobile users, as I learned at reddit. Every time someone switches cell towers, it looks like another user and inflates company user metrics

How hard is it to generate a uuid on first startup and use that to track logged out app users? Or are they being willfully blind just so they can inflate their metrics?

Yeah, you get this "for free" with Firebase Auth when you enable anonymous authentication. I suspect this is one of those cases where they simply don't want the real number.
Willfully blind. Why do anything do deflate their usage statistics?