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Re:Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their ... by nojito on Saturday May 29, 2021 @10:23AM (#27325427)
>I see no evidence that regular people are particularly unhappy with sharing their information.

There's actually a pretty cool graph from Google from the court docs that says the opposite.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2f1tSEWYAAVHGY?format=jpg&name=...

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Re:Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their ... by joshuamorton on Saturday May 29, 2021 @11:05AM (#27325704)
That graph didn't have a scale. It could be that 97% of users disabled the feature, or less than 1%. You just don't know.
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Re:Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their ... by nojito on Saturday May 29, 2021 @11:17AM (#27325783)
If the scale didn't matter, Google would not have called it a "Problem"
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Re:Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their ... by joshuamorton on Saturday May 29, 2021 @11:23AM (#27325821)
I think what it comes down to is that a small number of people coughs be "a problem", while still not being evidence that the median regular person or whatever cares.
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