News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to. Parent comment

Re:Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the W... by telemetry_is_ok on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @09:00PM (#18712413)
Telemetry is not really a problem except to the paranoid.

Not only is it anonymized, it's very useful. It helps provide essential data for bug fixes, especially for an OS and application software that rely so much on not breaking backwards compatibility.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the W... by coffekaesque on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @11:20PM (#18712975)
> Telemetry is not really a problem except to the paranoid.

How can you call anyone paranoid after all that we learned in the past decade?

> Not only is it anonymized

Oh so that's why Microsoft uses a hash of your mac address in multiple products. To make it more anonymous. I'm sure your unique advertisement id is also very important and efivars are only used to make sure your activation is legit.

[ Parent | on HN ]