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Software makers did just fine without telemetry for decades

They actually did not, almost every software out there is mining your information. Software developers rely on and need data, you can’t guess what people want. Whether it’s from studies, testers, surveys, or telemetry, developers need information about what users like, what they don’t, how they interact with the software… This is what makes data so valuable, and why businesses like Google can exist. Denying open source software telemetry is shooting yourself in the foot.

glub glub much?

That’s a nice way to start and end a discussion.

Telemetry benefits everyone, knowing which features are getting used, knowing what parts are causing crashes… It lets developers target what to improve and fix instead of going in blind. I get that collecting data can be scary, because so far everyone has been busy selling that data. But there’s a reason why data is so valuable, if it’s properly handled and anonymized it benefits everyone using firefox.

The problem with that line of thinking is that soon enough it wasn’t the parents fault but the fact that their dog died 5 years ago and they never got around to getting the vaccine. Might there be mitigating facts? Sure, but at the end of the day, it’s either the parent’s fault or the state’s fault for not making sure the kid got vaccinated.

And btw immunocompromised children are rare enough to be a rounding error.

The article talks about the safety of vaccines… Reporters have to walk on eggshells to avoid pointing fingers and insult part of their audience.

Look at the thread we’re in, look at the top of the conversation. This is about people not being able to play.

Oh no, people not being able to play games for a few hours, please stop the suffering.

Why would you want them to be breached? The only people that are going to be negatively affected by that are the users who was involved in the breach.

Yes and no. Sony would face repercussions for lax security, and while it would indeed affect the consumers, Sony would be at the epicenter. Forgive me for not giving a shit to what happens to Sony, and if they did in fact get breached I’ll be there with some popcorn enjoying some Shadenfreude.

I hope they weren’t breached again.

That’s awfully nice of you, certainly not a hope I share.

wait 900 seconds before every post.

This only applies for the first post, you’re probably deleting their cookie that tracks your browser.

Concord: The game nobody played but everyone remembers.

Can’t wait for the re-release trying to scrounge up a few bucks.

Edge is just chrome…

It’s little grievances that eventually pile up and one day you’ll just have had enough and switch.