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[–] Stovetop 326 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] qevlarr 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Legitimate interest to train AI

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

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

Enhanced user experience

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day 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.