• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      A method that attempts to collect data from a randomized or representative population rather than relying on self-report.

      • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
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        10 months ago

        The fact that you need consent to get this data would make a randomized approach impossible.

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            10 months ago

            canonical has been doing this for years too, and a significant portion of linux users are on ubuntu. i’m not sure if a good portion of users enable it though.

      • SuperIce@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        I like the way kde does it. On first install it gives a slider with how much analytics you want to send. I just do all of it because I trust KDE, but it’s nice that it asks you. They probably have some pretty good data.