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Re:Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environmen... by AlexandrB on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @09:56AM (#27748582)
> For usage data, it allows developers to focus on features that matter and know which ones you can remove.

I find tools that don't do this are generally more powerful because they allow for deep expertise and provide a ton of payoff if you put in the effort.

E.g: Vim. 80%+ of users probably don't use macros. Hell, I use them <1% of the time. But I'm sure glad they're there when I need them.

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Re:Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environmen... by svachalek on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @11:10AM (#27749625)
20% of users is quite a lot. In most mature applications you can find a lot of painful code twisted around requirements for 0.1% of the users or less.
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Re:Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environmen... by cbm-vic-20 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @11:34AM (#27749926)
https://xkcd.com/1172/
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