Re:How many users block Google analytics? (2017)
by ozi on Saturday February 29, 2020 @11:46PM
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> wrong way to frame this
this is the reality of how businesses operate.
> product pricing and labor aren’t that tightly correlated.
If you're the staff accountant, sure. You're technically correct.
If you're the CFO and I'm trying to convince you we need to spend $1M on user research instead of $100K, you can be sure this is taken into account when modeling monetization strategies to recoup R&D costs.
Besides, When we bought magazines the editors didn’t know what stories people were reading or what words you were spending more time reading. When you buy a tool the manufacturer doesn’t know how you use it. Why software gets a free pass at getting all that data for free without asking is beyond me. What I expect are for regulations to eventually hit this industry.