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Yeah, but their metrics probably suck.

So do mine of course, and so do yours. Metric design is a hard, hard problem.

I've come to the conclusion that I should keep secret metrics from people so that they aren't captured by Goodhardt's law, but apart from the ethical implications, I haven't managed to implement this anywhere yet.



One metric I started to use is the amount of stuff on a webpage blocked by ublock adblocker. The higher the number displayed by the unlock icon, the worse I expect the content to be.




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