zelon88 4 days ago

> These results come from our field telemetry, which represent real-world web usage on all types of hardware and websites.

I wonder what the speedup would be without field telemetry. Also what is the electrical consumption for all the telemetry-related packets hopping around the internet? What would the speedup be like for the internet itself if we stopped using telemetry on everything.

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dirkg 4 days ago

Most websites send massive amounts of telemetry data which is never mentioned but somehow MS doing this for Windows/Edge etc, which they fully disclose, always is.

e.g. Netflix/YouTube