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This popular talking point conveniently ignores that ads not the only way companies can benefit form spying. The HN crowd absolutely loves using "analytics" to
by pdkl95 11y ago
This popular talking point conveniently ignores that ads not the only way companies can benefit form spying.
The HN crowd absolutely loves using "analytics" to try and divine ways to make their products more profitable. Microsoft even uses this as an excuse for Win10's "telemetry" spyware: they say it's to improve the product. Yet when Apple spies on its users, suddenly it's ok because Apple isn't an ad company.
Apple is using this topic to attack their customers, but they are not exactly on moral high ground.
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoTracking crashes, interface pain points, etc. is, in itself, a perfectly legit thing for a developer to do. There's been all kinds of software, open-source and otherwise, that asks for permission to phone home with usage logs for roughly as long as there's been broad internet adoption. Win10 telemetry is hated mainly because they're so dishonest about it: you're encouraged to use default settings on installation, they're very secretive about what info is actually gathered and about what the settings do, and they straight-up lie about some of the things you can supposedly disable.