Does EL honor Do Not Track?
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]>wrote: > If we hashed user IDs, we'd not be able to compute statistics about the > images that UW users uploaded or their other work. Being able to correlate > UW success with other work and the experience level of the editor seems > like a clearly important thing. Also, storing a user ID is probably the > least invasive way to track identity. It's a standard practice. > > -Aaron > > > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Christian Aistleitner < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:42:22AM +0200, Christian Aistleitner wrote: >> > tracking users through the site is evil. >> > I'd prefer we do not do it. >> > Especially since users currently have no way to choose between getting >> > tracked and not getting tracked. >> >> it seems that the above passage caused confusion internally in the >> Analytics team. >> >> So just to avoid doubt, let me clarify publicly that by the above “I”, >> I really only mean me. Not the whole of the Analytics team. >> :-) >> >> >> Have fun, >> Christian >> >> >> P.S.: This clarification does of course not lessen my call about >> hashing user_ids. >> >> >> >> -- >> ---- quelltextlich e.U. ---- \\ ---- Christian Aistleitner ---- >> Companies' registry: 360296y in Linz >> Christian Aistleitner >> Gruendbergstrasze 65a Email: [email protected] >> 4040 Linz, Austria Phone: +43 732 / 26 95 63 >> Fax: +43 732 / 26 95 63 >> Homepage: http://quelltextlich.at/ >> --------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])
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