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Ah the good old days, when phoning home about your users' listening habits was considered faux pas.
by kakarot 9y ago
Ah the good old days, when phoning home about your users' listening habits was considered faux pas.
- ryanmarsh 9y agoIt wasn't just telemetry. It was a software installation unauthorized by the user. I shouldn't have to explain this on HN.
- honestoHeminway 9y agoIts moment like this you notice how far we have fallen
- techer 9y agoOr how far we've bent over. Apologies if this isn't appropriate.
- kakarot 9y agoGood, because you don't have to, as I am very familiar with the entire debacle. I was talking about a single aspect of the rootkit. Try to be less assumptive, friend.
- JoshMnem 9y agoOne can't authorize something that one isn't aware of. Users wouldn't install many common apps if they really understood what the systems were doing. For example, most people don't really understand that they are being digitally fingerprinted in multiple ways and tracked without their knowledge.