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1 month agoThere have already been reports of people being banned and finding their posts restored in response to their attempts to delete them.
There have already been reports of people being banned and finding their posts restored in response to their attempts to delete them.
To know what features people are using, how fast it’s running, know what hardware and where it’s being used, and to try to investigate crashing issues?
None of those things are what’s being discussed here, or what GP asked about. As stated in the article, this is about categorizing people’s searches.
In general, if something is possible to exploit, some companies will exploit it.
Figuring out which ones do can be difficult-to-impossible, since that information is not usually available to the public, or in many cases even to most employees. Unless a whistleblower steps forward, the best we can do is guess, and take whatever precautions we feel are worthwhile.