They’re effectively crackheads
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restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I don’t get why companies pull such shady crap to get behavior data. 99% of it is useless and never even is used to make improvements to products or processes.
SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 6 months ago
MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Clearly it isn’t so useless, or they wouldn’t do it.
wirehead@lemmy.world 6 months ago
More to the point, the company using shady means to collect the data does not need to care if the data is useful, just that it’s marketable.
Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s like grifting, but also a pyramid scheme.
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 6 months ago
A lot gets used. A lot doesn’t. The technology is designed with trust in mind that it won’t be abused. It completely is. We should really be redesigning protocols to not be intrusive. A lot of information is given that is no longer needed to be functional.