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[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 339 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's just that we have to make space for our 5,358 partners and the telemetry data they need.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 111 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Legitimate interest to train AI

[–] LouSlash@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Let me (lemme?) translate this into customer-friendly business language:

Enhanced user experience

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

That still wouldn't account for it. The code to collect this is tiny and the data isn't stored locally. The whole point is for them to suck it up into their massive dataset.