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Re:Whistleblower Drops 100 GB of Tesla Secrets to German New... by dogleash on Friday May 26, 2023 @04:31AM (#36081560)
> Why not?

Why?

No, seriously. Why?

Most people are (correctly) disillusioned enough to understand not to use a company-provided feedback funnel.

It is possible that this one is different. Doesn't change the fact the correct first impression is to never use the feature.

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Re:Whistleblower Drops 100 GB of Tesla Secrets to German New... by dotancohen on Friday May 26, 2023 @06:46AM (#36082438)
> Why? > No, seriously. Why?

To improve the feature. The same reason that we report bugs to KDE, Mozilla, LibreOffice, Canonical, Debian, Red Hat, Anki, JetBrains, Oracle, etc.

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Re:Whistleblower Drops 100 GB of Tesla Secrets to German New... by prepend on Friday May 26, 2023 @08:45AM (#36083324)
I submit bugs to open source projects as they are transparent and it helps developers.

I don’t submit random bugs to Oracle because nothing happens unless it’s serious and I have paid for support to have dedicated engineers debugging stuff.

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Re:Whistleblower Drops 100 GB of Tesla Secrets to German New... by hansel_der on Saturday May 27, 2023 @04:41AM (#36093061)
yea, in oss projects, users tend to feel more like stakeholders than with products of some mega-corp.

we all know that these feedback channels just create a corpus of opinions to be used for arbitrary arguments by management. no one is gonna read or even react to this unless it's necessary.

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