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Re:Chrome Won by MBCook on Thursday May 25, 2017 @11:18PM (#14421772)
I see telemetry as fundamentally different from the kind of data that you want to use to push advertising to people.
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Re:Chrome Won by _jal on Friday May 26, 2017 @09:49AM (#14423986)
There is no clear line to be drawn between the two, and it really depends on the use to which the data is put, something that's opaque to end users.

Sure, error reporting feeding in to a QA database is one thing. But is there the capability to target Win10 OS ads to, say, folks with old video cards? I'd be very surprised if someone in Redmond didn't think of that.

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Re:Chrome Won by yuhong on Friday May 26, 2017 @08:40PM (#14428265)
That being said, I do believe that currently SQM is separate from ad tracking and crash reporting for example.
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Re:Chrome Won by imron on Friday May 26, 2017 @05:19AM (#14422863)
So you think the telemetry is not going to help with things like this? https://www.extremetech.com/computing/245553-microsoft-now-p...
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Re:Chrome Won by sp332 on Friday May 26, 2017 @09:47AM (#14423968)
They seem to have sent that to everyone, so there's no targeting, and telemetry won't make a difference.
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Re:Chrome Won by yuhong on Friday May 26, 2017 @08:51PM (#14428305)
And even if it did it would be probably separate from for example SQM.
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