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Especially considering that google and microsoft probably collects 10x the data

• chrisjc 3y ago
  While you're probably right and we should be concerned, I'd say what is more concerning that than the quantity is the content. Whenever I hear that an app is collecting telemetry I feel conflicted between leaving it on for maintainers to gain a better understanding of performance and potential issues, or off so that it's not used to profile me. It would be nice if telemetry was somehow simply differentiated through some app options.
• kccqzy 3y ago
  Chromium is open source. And unsurprisingly all the data collection bits are open source too. (They call it UMA metrics in the codebase.) Search in the codebase for things like UMA_HISTOGRAM_ENUMERATION or SCOPED_UMA_HISTOGRAM_TIMER and with a free afternoon you'll have a pretty good idea what kind of telemetry Google really collects. Example: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:base/metrics/histogram_macros.h;l=297?q=SCOPED_UMA_H&sq=&ss=chromium https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:bas...
  • pornel 3y ago
    Chrome is closed-source though. There’s no way to make a reproducible build of Chrome (the Google binary adds DRM and could be adding more). I’m mentioning this, because this open-closed ambiguity is a typical Google strategy. Similarly, Android in the AOSP flavor is open, but the OS that actually ships on phones is different.