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> If your telemetry tells you that a _very large number of people_ are using it, and you have complaints from a number of people who have _never used it_ (or disabled telemetry), that tells you there's value in what you're doing.

This is how you lose thousand seats enterprise licensing deals without even realizing it.

> That's a false equivalence to OP's point - there's a _stark_ different between telemetry and phoning home with training data.

Yeah, arguably the former is worse. In the latter case, the data is actually relevant to the product and there's a chance of the user directly benefiting from it.



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