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by sophacles 1325 days ago
Why do you want to spy on me to begin with?
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Firmwarrior 1325 days ago
It's pretty funny actually. Nobody really uses the data they slurp up, except as an excuse not to fix any bugs or improve anything

"Oh, only 1% of users are hitting this one!" (Reduce priority, ignore, automatically close for "zero bug bounce")

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vezycash 1325 days ago
>Nobody really uses the data they slurp up, except as an excuse not to fix any bugs or improve anything

And they remove necessary features then lie, "Our telemetry suggests that people don't use those features."

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noasaservice 1325 days ago
That's simple. After they fired all their beta testers and QA department, MS converted all non-business Windows OSes to be 'automatic-and-irrevocable-opt-in'.

Well, and it's also some of the richest user datasets. Google is doing it. Apple is doing it. Amazon is doing. So why not MS? It's not like we have hard privacy laws in this country!

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