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1. They're not funneling it through Stanford. They're posting it publicly, but on BigQuery https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux/ https://developer.chrome.com/
by dadrian 4y ago
1. They're not funneling it through Stanford. They're posting it publicly, but on BigQuery https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux/ https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux/
2. Chrome prompts you to opt-out of metrics collection on install.
None of the reasons you've listed for this being ethically dubious are true.
- cronaday 4y ago[flagged]
- dang 4y agoPlease don't cross into personal attack. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- userbinator 4y agoIs pointing out a conflict of interest a "personal attack"?
- dang 4y agoI don't have a good general answer to that.
- dmitriid 4y agoThis is ethically dubious: "Chrome prompts you to opt-out of metrics collection on install.". Because the default should be "opted out by default, let the user opt-in if they so wish"