Re:Some Excel users pop F1 off their keyboards (2012)
by c3534l on Friday September 22, 2017 @07:19PM
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Well, I think it matters if you have the knowledge and consent of the participants, whether the data will be used to produce a proprietary profile on the person, whether that data is sold, and if participants are compensated for participating in a market research program.
These days, we call this "telemetry".
>I'm surprised more people don't do that even today...
Because telemetry is seen as evil. Remember how WMS is praised for collecting this data in Windows 10 to make a better product? Yup, me neither.
The irony is, of course, that every web-based product has these stats built-in. Facebook is known to gather this exact data, for example.
As a side note, it always gets me when people whose PC usage is 99% on the web complain about "telemetry".