Yes it is bad. Most of it relies on tools provided by advertising & stalking companies like Google Analytics, so they have an incentive to also use the data for themselves, and correlate it with other data they collect about you when you use their services directly. This also means these companies (even if not involved in advertising directly) have an insane potential in tracking users across all apps that happen to use their services, making them a very juicy target, including for state actors.
> AB-tests, UX-tests
I don't want to be a lab rat. If you are testing things then please make it clear and let me see both options and I will happily give feedback.
> finding bugs
What if the software crashes while processing confidential data and part of that data is contained in the core dump that you just sent off because you don't respect your users enough to ask them?
> AB-tests, UX-tests
I don't want to be a lab rat. If you are testing things then please make it clear and let me see both options and I will happily give feedback.
> finding bugs
What if the software crashes while processing confidential data and part of that data is contained in the core dump that you just sent off because you don't respect your users enough to ask them?