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361 points robenkleene | 2 comments | 23 May 20 09:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.521s | source
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MintelIE ◴[23 May 20 18:52 UTC] No.23285409[source]▶
Why don't companies come out and tell people what they're doing these days? Telemetry is getting to the point where people such as doctors and lawyers might be violating the law by using a modern computer. And people in the defense industry? Doesn't Apple employ thousands of forns? Who's audited their datasystems and ensured that this stuff stays private?

Much easier and better to just stop using it all and move to a system like Linux or BSD. 99% of people do everything in a browser these days anyhow.

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1. nojito ◴[23 May 20 20:09 UTC] No.23285939[source]▶
"Telmetry" has been co-opted by the tin foil hat wearing privacy keyboard warriors.

It's akin to the people spending tens of thousands of dollars on disaster prep.

The only people who lose are the end-users of software. Who are forced to use crappy software.

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2. salawat ◴[23 May 20 21:04 UTC] No.23286425[source]▶
You mean, like all the software that has been written since companies got into the habit of embedding telemetry in everything? That crappy software?

Telemetry has a specific use-case. Taking measurements in a place you can't go. What industry employs it for nowadays is much closer to spyware in the sense you can get so much more of it done without it producing a noticeable effect for the user in terms of how much work their computer is actually doing. So what if you spin through a couple rounds of telemetry gathering while the user's process is blocked, am I right? Not like they're using it. /s