Comment on T-Mobile secretly records iPhone screens and claims it's being helpful.

• ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They aren’t recording the screen everywhere all the time like the shitty article implies. Literally every website and app you use does the same thing as this T-Mobile app.

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  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Literally every website and app you use does the same thing as this T-Mobile app.

    Do you have a source for this?

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    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I build software and can confirm this.

      This is pretty run-of-the-mill analytics and user session recording. There’s nothing surprising here.

      Usually it’s not actual screen recording but rather user action diff recording (Which effectively acts like screen recording except that it only records things that changed so that the recording is much cheaper to store)

      This is extremely effective for tracking down bugs, solving user support issues with software, or watching session recordings to figure out if users are using the software in unexpected ways.

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      • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Usually it’s not actual screen recording but rather user action diff recording

        Oh it’s just a heatmap? That’s fine then.

        I thought we were talking about actually recording the screen itself.

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    • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      do you have a source for this

      Literally any analytics module will do this. Basically every major website you go to will do something similar.

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