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Why indeed (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 329 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's just that we have to make space for our 5,358 partners and the telemetry data they need.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 107 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

* legitimate telemetry data

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Legitimate interest to train AI

[–] LouSlash@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

Let me (lemme?) translate this into customer-friendly business language:

Enhanced user experience

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

That still wouldn't account for it. The code to collect this is tiny and the data isn't stored locally. The whole point is for them to suck it up into their massive dataset.