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Re:The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge by imajoredinecon on Saturday March 18, 2023 @09:45AM (#35209093)
You estimate how many people use computers and how many people use computers you make. When you subtract the two, you get how many people use computers that your competitors make.

Not every “internal metric” is something you can measure directly.

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Re:The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge by marginalia_nu on Saturday March 18, 2023 @10:40AM (#35209480)
If that is how sketchy the data they are using to make decisions is, that would explain a lot about their decisions.
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Re:The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge by alpaca128 on Saturday March 18, 2023 @10:03AM (#35209211)
Most active Linux PCs were made by Windows PC manufacturers.
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