Stumblinbear

Whether you like their actions or not, they still have bills to pay

Gotta pay the bills somehow

"I'll put in enough ads to actually support your usage habits and you can pay if you want to not deal with them"

Sure but if they're trying to send new requests while the others are still retrying, then it will result in the same thing

Calls as in network requests not phone calls

Not in the slightest unfortunately. Often customers don't even know what customers want, and the subgroup that actually responds to these aren't necessarily "average"

Thank you. I've personally not worked at a company yet that actually sold this data or moved it outside of our internal systems. It exists purely to drive business decisions

My company collects a ton of data, but it doesn't leave our servers. We use it purely to drive internal decisions based on how people actually use the software

Oddly the "where you clicked" report does drive decisions for updates. We (as a developer) use that information to drive UI decisions and determine which flows are more important and should be more easily available