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swiley on March 30, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Andro...

If telemetry is used for improving services then why does every project who's UI decisions are based on telemetry[1] consistently rebuild their UIs in less usable and less user friendly ways?

[1] Pretty much anything from Mozilla or Google, Reddit, lots of others.

emptyparadise on March 31, 2021 | [–]

Because they're optimizing for some engagement metric and not user experience.

butz on March 30, 2021 | [–]

Power users turn off telemetry and skew data?

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