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Spyware (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/funny@lemmy.world
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[–] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, now they call it "telemetry" and pretend it's somehow normal and acceptable. But no, it's fucking not -- it's still spyware!

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    There's nothing wrong with telemetry, it's not supposed to contain identifying or private data. It's information about feature usage, crashes etc. and it's very useful for developers. Especially with open-source software, the devs are generally not your enemies, they just want to improve their products. If some apps spy on you under the guise of telemetry, that's a different issue.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Right, but most of the time it's for things that do not need to know where I am or any of my private data.

    And then all of that conveniently gathered and stored information is just waiting for a bad actors (including corporations) to scoop it up.

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