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by admax88qqq 1147 days ago
Because policy documents are written by lawyers to cover the companies ass for every eventuality. There is a different motivation here.

The code is written by engineers to either solve a problem, or spy on the users. The policy document does not disambiguate between the two.
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AdamJacobMuller 1147 days ago
Especially because the service required to capture/collect these metrics would be several orders of magnitude more complex than the service required to serve a single static file.
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numbsafari 1147 days ago
Not really?

Include them in the web server logs of the system serving the static file and call it a day.

That’s pretty basic.

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