On 8/11/09 2:13 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Kudos to the WMF for avoiding gratuitous reader tracking. Other > people *are* paying attention to the privacy implications of this kind > of user-invisible behavior.
Yay! Quick note: the only sort of user tracking that we would be interested in doing is to get aggregate information about activity habits. We wouldn't want to record which pages a given visitor sees, but it could be very useful to know that X% of visitors click on N pages per session, or that Y% of folks tend to give up if a page takes more than Z seconds to load. As long as we can do this without creepy big-brother databases of Everything You Do, this shouldn't infringe on anybody's privacy. Of course the default assumption with any sort of long-term tracking cookie is going to be that Evil Is Afoot(TM), so we'd want to keep things looking squeaky clean as well: if we use tracking cookies for statistical purpose they're more likely to be per-session cookies, not permanent ones, and we would never use sneaky techniques to hide them from users. -- brion _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
