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Re:Ubiquiti adds phone-home to the access point firmware by srrr on Sunday November 03, 2019 @06:14AM (#21433220)
Maybe your "engagement" increased, but in this case your "time to task completion" did not. In most cases analytics is much more nuanced than you might think. And the reason why something got worse for you is because it got better for someone else.
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Re:Ubiquiti adds phone-home to the access point firmware by finnthehuman on Sunday November 03, 2019 @06:31AM (#21433278)
>your "time to task completion" did not

So they're driving down the time it takes to do what they magically infer I'm trying to do. Is this why whenever I try to organize my gmail box I give up 10 minutes in because the UI is slow and bullshit? Because it's good for metrics that I can't make my gmail account anywhere near as useful as my work email?

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