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I don't necessarily agree with your argument - I think it's a perfectly reasonable conclusion that either Microsoft and Google could have worse telemetry in the
by AlexMax 7y ago
I don't necessarily agree with your argument - I think it's a perfectly reasonable conclusion that either Microsoft and Google could have worse telemetry in their browser.
That said, I noticed the strange behavior around this article as well. I've seen it pop up multiple times in various content aggregators, and the /r/technology mods even removed the post that I happened to notice and comment in.
I'm not sure why, it seemed like a completely reasonable article on its face. But maybe there's something underhanded going on behind the scenes?
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y agoGoogle's primary business is telemetry: I'd be shocked if they were worse at it than Microsoft. But I'm willing to accept you might disagree with this point. Regarding the second point: And I think we agree here, the article is odd. It definitely seems like there's an anti-Edge narrative trying to achieve mindshare. I should have decoupled my original comment, and only discussed the circulation of the article, as that's more concerning.
- enos_feedler 7y agoGoogle’s primary business is telemetry? Explain!
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y agoA means to an end for serving relevant ads, their bread and butter.
- scarejunba 7y agoTheir bread and butter is search ads, my dude. They don't need telemetry for that. They have search keywords. Almost all of their revenue comes from there and the margin there is huge.
- Terretta 7y agoWhat source suggests Google’s AdWords ads distributed across the entire web (all the AdWords sites that aren’t SERPs) don’t leverage telemetry and don’t drive meaningful revenue?