stankmut
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- Comment on Blue Shield of California shared the private health data of millions with Google for years 4 days ago:
Allowing Google to run an ad campaign targeting their members wasn’t the benefit Blue Cross was talking about, that’s a side effect from them not turning off the data sharing option in the Google analytics settings.
The analytics data is used for prioritizing development work. If a tool they have on the website relies on a library that isn’t compatible with a new version of React for instance, do they know how many people use it? Having analytics allows you to decide what’s worth spending the development time to maintain.
- Comment on Blue Shield of California shared the private health data of millions with Google for years 4 days ago:
The analytics would be for the web development team to see which pages/features are used. Usually a product person uses that data for setting priorities on what gets worked on.
- Comment on Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them 1 month ago:
If you turn the disc over, you can actually count the rings without needing to cut into it! This lets you skip having to glue the disc back together after checking the age.
- Comment on If you can find the oil filter, I'll give you a quarter. If you can get it out after the lube tech tightened it to 325 lbft, I'll give you sixty bucks. 2 months ago:
I had to do this to get the factory oil filter off my motorcycle. Went through 3 different oil filter removal tools and all I achieved was rounding off all the edges of the filter.
- Comment on PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off 6 months ago:
The news feed can have ads, but the poorly designed feature itself isn’t about showing ads. It’s just showing the top item of the news feed.
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 6 months ago:
This was a survey. They weren’t gathering data without consent.