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It's just that we have to make space for our 5,358 partners and the telemetry data they need.
* legitimate telemetry data
Legitimate interest to train AI
Let me (lemme?) translate this into customer-friendly business language:
Enhanced user experience
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.