This “level of data” doesn’t strike me as alarming. It’s views and mouse locations. Really no different than any simple analytics solution.
Hypothetically: I tell a dev to drop a piece of JS on every page that seems related to payments. That dev probably isn’t doing their job super well if they don’t ask me why or wonder why and find out.
I think you imagine HN readers to be dumb. Nothing here is surprising.
I know it’s covid era and we felt good as a community wagging our fingers at Zoom’s naughty FB tracking inclusion. Legitimate concerns there given the advertising business model, and no good reason for zoom to be doing it. This is fundamentally different: the data is for a good purpose with a narrow scope to a good company with a user-positive value creation model.
Hypothetically: I tell a dev to drop a piece of JS on every page that seems related to payments. That dev probably isn’t doing their job super well if they don’t ask me why or wonder why and find out.
I think you imagine HN readers to be dumb. Nothing here is surprising.
I know it’s covid era and we felt good as a community wagging our fingers at Zoom’s naughty FB tracking inclusion. Legitimate concerns there given the advertising business model, and no good reason for zoom to be doing it. This is fundamentally different: the data is for a good purpose with a narrow scope to a good company with a user-positive value creation model.
I believe your princess is in another castle.