• restingboredface@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    I don’t get why companies pull such shady crap to get behavior data. 99% of it is useless and never even is used to make improvements to products or processes.

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        6 months ago

        More to the point, the company using shady means to collect the data does not need to care if the data is useful, just that it’s marketable.

      • hitmyspot@aussie.zone
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        6 months ago

        A lot gets used. A lot doesn’t. The technology is designed with trust in mind that it won’t be abused. It completely is. We should really be redesigning protocols to not be intrusive. A lot of information is given that is no longer needed to be functional.