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1. youngmanyk · 1789848281 · focus · HN ↗

   please share your thoughts if i should have done things differently

   1. nerevarthelame · 1789853999 · focus · HN ↗

      Soulless LLM-ese. The content is needlessly stretched to occupy space, paragraphs, and tables. Any actual insights could have been condensed and conveyed with 80% less text.

      The "Complete 72-Hour Raw CSV Dataset" CSV contains 13 records. That incomplete data is formatted incorrectly: rows 6 and 11 are missing payload_bytes, so their description shows in the wrong column.

      The "How DeGoogled Are You" section is mostly a separate issue from the test described in the article, and it has no place being at the top. The article is about how Android phones are passively phoning home. For example, switching from Chrome to Brave won't reduce idle phone-home, as Android users can't uninstall Chrome, and the idle activity was not related to Chrome. The same goes for most of the other recommendations in that widget.

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