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We run hundreds of pipelines like this to fight against click-farms and spam bots....

.... and censorship for the government.

The secret weapon is Heap Analytics, which allows define data points collection on the fly without recompile the app and republish with hard-coded predefined event hooks.

It might up the costs, but you can always record the behavior of real humans and replay it with randomization elements. You'd can fairly easily fake a bunch of engaged people.

I feel like this approach would eventually become gamed since you could still have human participants act as engaged users.

Not sure why you think that isn't game-able as well, they already use massive racks of real phones.

Ill sit out being spyed on even more intensively in the name of "telemetry" thanks.