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[–] plistig@feddit.de 31 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Well, that's still around 1 MB too much IMHO.

[–] CalOtsu@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago (6 children)

It's reporting usage and error data back to the company. As an engineer who used to work on appliances that did this the data is used to drive design direction as well as find trends in failure that we could make changes for.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online -3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

No, anonymous diagnostic data is clearly a threat to my privacy!

[–] LoveSausage@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Problem is ofc that none of the mentioned examples included any security...

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I definitely meant to respond to the engineer as a joke, not to the doomsayer

[–] LoveSausage@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I just pointed out one of the problems with "anonymous data" collection. Another big one would be the aggregation issue

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