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- (EDITED) Anonymous hardware survey is not anonymous . . .
Valve cleared this issue up with me Their hardware survey provides a way to copy the data they said was going to be uploaded However, it also erroneously added data that wasn't going to be uploaded This added data contained PII So, false alarm but still a bug and they said it will get fixed soon ==== ORIGINAL POST ====
- Valve Says It Fixed The Steam Hardware Surveys VR Section
Valve says it fixed “collection and analysis” issues with the Steam Hardware Survey’s VR section Last week we published an article outlining recent anomalies in the Steam Hardware Survey
- Valve Corrects Steam Survey Data Revealing Latest VR . . .
Valve this week updated its monthly Steam Hardware Software Survey to fix issues resulting in anomalous VR population data The corrected figures return the survey to being one of the most
- Valve Fixes The Steam Hardware Survey | Toms Hardware
Valve identified a problem with its Steam Hardware Survey and has deployed a fix The survey tracks a portion of Steam's 125 million active users, so we in the media often uses it to track the
- Hardware Survey inaccurate :: Steam Discussions - Steam Community
I accepted the hardware survey popup because why not Lets help Valve out Only to find it was highly inaccurate Normally I wouldn't care At all But then I started thinking Some people I know actually rely on the accuracy of those statistics for a lot in this industry like marketing and where to invest their money
- Valve fixes Steam Hardware Survey, Windows 10 is back on top
It turns out, however, that many cyber cafes manage their hardware in a way that was causing their customers to be over counted," Valve explained in a message posted above the most recent survey
- Valve Fixes The Steam Hardware Survey - ResetEra
Steam designed the survey to query its users’ systems once per year, but the company discovered that Asia-based cyber cafes manage their systems in such a way that the survey could be completed multiple times per year on a single PC This duplicated the entries multiple times, which skewed the results of the survey
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