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[–] Ledivin 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How can it be a scam if it's free to play?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago

devastating to find out that you weren't having fun all those times that you thought that you were having fun

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People just want to feel cheated but telemetry has been around since google no one should be surprised.

[–] friend_of_satan 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

telemetry has been around since google

Actually...

The beginning of industrial telemetry lies in the steam age ... Examples are James Watt's (1736-1819) additions to his steam engines for monitoring from a (near) distance such as the mercury pressure gauge and the fly-ball governor.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemetry

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Internet based telemetry couldn’t have existed until at least the 1960-80. This telemetry wasn’t really as sophisticated as electronic based telemetry. The difference is one isn’t connected to your entire life.

[–] friend_of_satan 1 points 1 week ago

Sure, but Google came out in 1998. I remember it taking over webcrawler and lycos. Telemetry definitely existed before then. But I get your point that telemetry really became a bad word much more recently.