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Re:Balena Etcher Pro – Fast write to multiple cards or USB d... by legrande on Thursday August 12, 2021 @01:11PM (#28158862)
> In fact it’s currently writing almost 2 million SD Cards & USB Drives per month!

And how do they know that? Correct. Telemetry.

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Re:Balena Etcher Pro – Fast write to multiple cards or USB d... by automato on Thursday August 12, 2021 @03:20PM (#28160335)
calculating how many times a person clicks "download" on their website times a guesstiamted number of cards a person would also give a good enough estimate without any telemetry
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