Dumbest question I have asked in recent history.

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Judgmenl
04/28/2024
06:00 PM
#1
When a youtuber references that something is mentioned in "the card" and points to a corner of the screen. What the hell are they pointing to? Annotations were removed years ago.
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Yellow
04/28/2024
06:05 PM
#2
There's a thing that pops up at the top right every now and then. It looks like an information bubble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C_Wrt6pNSw
ParanoidObsessive
04/28/2024
08:03 PM
#3
Videos still have end cards, though it's possible you don't see them if you're watching on a phone. I wouldn't know because I never watch videos that way.
"Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76
"POwned again." --- blight family
Judgmenl
04/28/2024
10:20 PM
#4
Also new dumb question
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/6cda1b4b.jpg

How long has Fandom been collecting our telemetry?
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ParanoidObsessive
04/28/2024
10:54 PM
#5
Judgmenl posted...
How long has Fandom been collecting our telemetry?

Probably from day of sale, because the site has been collecting your data for like 20+ years now.

Selling user data has probably been the site's primary revenue stream for a looong time now. It's also the main reason they still bother running polls - because they sell the data as marketing info.
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"POwned again." --- blight family
josh
04/28/2024
10:55 PM
#6
would you need to pay for the results of the poll? the results are right there publicly
So I was standing still at a stationary store...
SKARDAVNELNATE
04/29/2024
12:32 AM
#7
Judgmenl posted...
Also new dumb question
What does it do if you don't interact with it at all?
Is it not doing stuff until you allow it?
Or is it doing stuff until you indicate not to?
No locked doors, no windows barred. No more things to make my brain seem SKARD.
Look at Mr. Technical over here >.> -BTB
Yellow
04/29/2024
12:50 AM
#8
I'm pretty sure my info is useless but whatever. It's not like there's any money left in my bank account.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C_Wrt6pNSw
ParanoidObsessive
04/29/2024
04:16 AM
#9
josh posted...
would you need to pay for the results of the poll? the results are right there publicly

Because the real value is in breaking down and correlating the data. Most marketing companies aren't going to pay an employee to go look at every individual poll to try and pull data, but they'll pay for a report that spells out multiple trends in bite-size chunks, and can link those trends to user ages, locations, and other demographics.

GameFAQs can correlate that data on the back end, thus making it easy to sell.
"Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76
"POwned again." --- blight family
josh
04/29/2024
08:48 AM
#10
ParanoidObsessive posted...
GameFAQs can correlate that data on the back end, thus making it easy to sell.

sometimes i forget the gamefaqs home page isn't just a big html file
So I was standing still at a stationary store...
Jeremy517
04/29/2024
03:55 PM
#11
Judgmenl posted...


How long has Fandom been collecting our telemetry?

Pretty much every business website that isn't a mom-and-pop collects telemetry
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