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A Wacom tablet is not the same as a phone, it is a peripheral. This is like your Dell keyboard tracking your keystrokes and what application they go into.


Which is a thing that has already happened with Razer[1]. They back-pedalled (a little) after pressure from customers[2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/8klf7a/razer_synap...

[2] https://www.techradar.com/news/razer-synapse-3-app-delivers-...


It's a bit late for them <pats SteelSeries mouse>.


A specialized keyboard using different button layouts and settings per app. Also, not tracking keystrokes at all but rather "used special keyboard with app foo".

As a better example, suppose it were a game controller. Then the question "what games are people using this controller with?" seems quite reasonable. Filter to games only and anonymize the data and that would be fine.


Oh okay. Makes sense. Thanks for explaining.




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