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Re:My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force ... by majewsky on Sunday April 01, 2018 @02:19PM (#16729663)
> these services could not function without this information

Why does Kindle NEED to know how long I've stayed on each page?

Why does a smart TV NEED to store hover events in a persistent DB?

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Re:My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force ... by friedman23 on Monday April 02, 2018 @01:57AM (#16732628)
>Why does Kindle NEED to know how long I've stayed on each page?

It doesn't, but every page turn event has a time stamp. Using that info it's pretty easy to know how long someone has been on a page.

>Why does a smart TV NEED to store hover events in a persistent DB?

When the company is doing AB testing to decide on the optimal page layout this information is important.

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