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Re:Bose Headphones Spy on Users, Lawsuit Says by hammock on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @11:44AM (#14148524)
> Would it even hurt sales at all?

Of course it would. What is the consumer benefit derived from the collection of this data?

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Re:Bose Headphones Spy on Users, Lawsuit Says by Johnny555 on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @12:13PM (#14148861)
Many consumers don't see their meta data as having any value to them so see giving it up as zero cost... Hence they don't care at all about tracking.
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Re:Bose Headphones Spy on Users, Lawsuit Says by ahakki on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @11:46AM (#14148549)
In the given example the benefit is stated as lower prices.
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Re:Bose Headphones Spy on Users, Lawsuit Says by Etheryte on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @11:49AM (#14148577)
This example would only work if you had the same product in two different price ranges, e.g 350$ without tracking and 300$ with tracking or something similar.
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