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Comment by xnx

6 months ago

Part of me is hoping this leaks. Might be the only way to get people to care.

It would also be a fascinating dataset to explore.

> Part of me is hoping this leaks. Might be the only way to get people to care

How's that worked out for us the last billion times?

  • Maybe we should do a South Park with their TrollTrace plotline and make the data publicly available (maybe purposefully exclude the last 6-12 months of data for a little bit of secrecy), and watch the public rage while they can look up the movements of everyone they know!

    Though I don’t think that would even work, as people’s anger would be directed at the public directory rather then the source of the data and how it was gathered…

    (Edit: Don’t actually do this, as it could / probably will, do more harm than good. But until the majority of people get angry at such data collection, it will just continue to happen)

I could easily lose weeks of my life analyzing a trove of data like this. I had a great time with the Twitch data a few years back.

  • I would like to hear more details about your adventure. Do you have a blog post or similar that you can share?

    • I wrote one but never published it. I'm working on resurrecting the blog (writing an article right now) I appreciate the interest and I'll dig up the draft and publish it later this week.

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