Re:How many users block Google analytics? (2017)
by saagarjha on Saturday February 29, 2020 @09:34PM
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Because telemetry, by default, subverts consent of what I’d like to share: I may care about feature X and would like you to know I am using it, but I may not trust that you’re not also logging me when I do sensitive operation Y that I might not want to share (or even want to share with you that I used feature X at 10 PM on Friday). Perhaps it would be better if programs let you review telemetry data before you sent it, but I am unsure if anyone will actually do this or if people can meaningfully take the time to essentially review and opt out of things they don’t want to share.
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Re:How many users block Google analytics? (2017)
by nocturnial on Sunday March 01, 2020 @01:19AM
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I disagree because telemetry collects _your_ data. This means, in an ideal world, if you are pissed off enough about the company collecting it, you would have a chance to alter it and mess up their metrics. Your data => you can and have to right to alter it.
The problem is those companies view it as their data for which you have no right to modify it. Let alone chose to transmit it at all.
Before anyone replies this would invalidate telemetry, ask yourself this question: "If you see a spike in data that makes no sense, isn't that an indication that somehow your data collection policies are pissing off people?"
Re:How many users block Google analytics? (2017)
by saagarjha on Sunday March 01, 2020 @01:31AM
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> This means, in an ideal world, if you are pissed off enough about the company collecting it, you would have a chance to alter it and mess up their metrics.
I really don't have the time or malice to do this. I can and do move on to something else.