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Do any developers collect usage statistics by sampling rather than a persistent data stream? I think it would possibly reassure privacy-conscious users that ano
by whoopdedo 3y ago
Do any developers collect usage statistics by sampling rather than a persistent data stream? I think it would possibly reassure privacy-conscious users that anonymized & aggregated telemetry really is what it claims to be if the phoning home only happens at random intervals. Otherwise that detailed record of usage is too tempting a target for the surveillance capitalists.
- JohnFen 3y agoThat wouldn't reassure me at all. Just because an application is phoning home at random intervals in no way means that the data wasn't being continuously collected. What would reassure me is if the data were all in human-readable form and given to me to transmit myself.