If I'm understanding correctly, Do Not Track is about tracking cookies that track activities between websites. Is that right?
FWIW, the user_id that I propose storing is not a cookie. -Aaron On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Max Semenik <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]]) > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > >
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