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I think finding 1000 signatories from people who are actually affected would be hard. It seems we're a very small minority. Many people seem to be affected by the odd OS, device, driver, or screen, etc. but the amount of people with overall issues is probably low.
https://ledstrain.org/d/629-how-many-users-are-here/ Slacor posted a heatmap of visitors here and the number of visitors to this forum is low. Obviously there'll be a significantly higher portion of people with this problem who've never visited this site but I imagine we're still an incredibly small minority
There are other issues too. For example nobody has a real idea of the cause of the eye strain/headaches and generally not a single one of us has identical issues ie there's always something one person can use another can not so what do we say are the problems and the cause and what we want done? "some devices hurt me but also maybe not this person who has issues with other things please fix them so they work for everybody even though none of us have any idea regarding this problem!"
There was a long thread on Intels forum for a while and after around four years they finally did some tests and then closed the thread. (closing and locking the thread was a real kick in the teeth to Intel customers IMO)
Here's what intel said
Apologies for the length in the time since our last update. In the elapsed time we've completed extensive and thorough testing of the issue you've reported to us. We sought external testing to ensure we weren't overlooking anything and to ensure unbiased results. We've worked with some of you individually, testing the actual platforms you're reporting the issue on with the specific drivers you claim are causing an issue. User Kray_62 sent us his system and we sent the unit and the drivers with & without perceived issues (version 2476 & 3347 respectively) to a 3rd party test lab [TUV Rheinland] who conducts eye comfort certification on visual displays. TUV tested various factors like luminance, color, flicker, and blue light. TUV's test results concluded no measurable difference between the drivers on neither internal nor external displays. Not to say there isn't a perceived issue, but without measurable differences between drivers, there is no objective way to resolve the issue. We have reached the end of our investigation and will be closing this issue
I get the feeling that this same thing will happen over and over again any time they do any kinds of tests unless we figure out the initial problem we all have first and that's what we need to put our heads together and some how do.