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Re:Wacom tablets track every app you open by cmcd on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @10:50AM (#22247805)
A Wacom tablet is not the same as a phone, it is a peripheral. This is like your Dell keyboard tracking your keystrokes and what application they go into.
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Re:Wacom tablets track every app you open by AlexandrB on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @11:31AM (#22248349)
Which is a thing that has already happened with Razer[1]. They back-pedalled (a little) after pressure from customers[2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/8klf7a/razer_synap...

[2] https://www.techradar.com/news/razer-synapse-3-app-delivers-...

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Re:Wacom tablets track every app you open by nottorp on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @01:02PM (#22249392)
It's a bit late for them <pats SteelSeries mouse>.
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Re:Wacom tablets track every app you open by diffeomorphism on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @10:55AM (#22247891)
A specialized keyboard using different button layouts and settings per app. Also, not tracking keystrokes at all but rather "used special keyboard with app foo".

As a better example, suppose it were a game controller. Then the question "what games are people using this controller with?" seems quite reasonable. Filter to games only and anonymize the data and that would be fine.

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Re:Wacom tablets track every app you open by dmitryminkovsky on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @11:01AM (#22247969)
Oh okay. Makes sense. Thanks for explaining.
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