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I have a similar anecdote about android. I was trying to change some setting, but my android phone has like 3 different places where settings can hide (the settings app, google settings app and vendor settings app). So anyway, I open one, search, open the other and so on. I must have opened and switched about 4 times, went through lots of menus, back and forth until I eventually found what I was looking for and changed the setting.

After finishing, like ~10-15 seconds later a "feedback gathering ..." alert popped up, and it was gone in like 5 more seconds. My complete guess is that the constant going back and forth between settings menus and apps triggered something and something got sent to goog. I don't know how I feel about it, but I think I'm mostly fine with that? It sounds like the kind of thing I'd want my products to improve on. In an ideal world I'd get a quick report about what was gathered, and have an option to accept/deny but... Dunno.




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