• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      A method that attempts to collect data from a randomized or representative population rather than relying on self-report.

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      6 months ago

      What way do you imagine would be more precise?

      Unavoidable analytics, apparently. Yay?

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        6 months ago

        Well do you want useful stats or not /s

        But seriously, a lot of opt-in (that never get opted in to) data is insanely useful for developers, but it has such a bad stigma that we never get anywhere close to the amount of usefulness a larger dataset could provide.

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        6 months ago

        I like the way kde does it. On first install it gives a slider with how much analytics you want to send. I just do all of it because I trust KDE, but it’s nice that it asks you. They probably have some pretty good data.

        • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
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          This is the important point IMHO. This kind of feedback is exactly something I’d love to do, but I don’t think I had any idea about it before this post. Just a little popup on a new install/upgrade would be a much broader net.