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Trying to gather data about your product performance and use is "normal". The fact it's been always happening is also "normal". The fact you do more of it becau
by slver 5y ago
Trying to gather data about your product performance and use is "normal". The fact it's been always happening is also "normal". The fact you do more of it because of technology doesn't make it less normal. Is it abnormal you can shop for groceries 5 miles away with your car, because you wouldn't be able to by foot? What kind of a silly thought process is that.
Probably companies haven't been able to serve billions of individuals worldwide, so they had less data. Microsoft has more customers, and has more data to process.
No one here is describing WTF is this "data" harming them personally with. It's not personally identifiable, and it's extremely mundane. Surely Microsoft will destroy your life by having some stats on how often people in a given region play Solitaire.
- croes 5y agoSo tell me how car or TV manufacturers gathered that data 40 years ago? It's neither normal nor was it always happening. It's an effect of the internet and was normally impossible before.
- 13of40 5y ago"The Audimeter (audience meter) was used from 1950 during the early days of television broadcasting. It attached to a television and recorded the channels viewed, onto a 16mm film cartridge that was mailed weekly to company headquarters in Evanston, Illinois, and used to generate the Nielsen Television Index. It was based on an earlier Audimeter that had been developed for the 1942 Nielsen Radio Index. Randomly selected "Nielsen families" homes were enticed to accept the Audimeter by including free TV repair service provided by TV Index reps, which was a valuable commodity when vacuum tube televisions predominated." - Wikipedia In other words, for TV they paid a small portion of the audience to record and report their habits.
- croes 5y agoSo they had to ask and pay. No problem if MS does the same. Currently they do neither.