El dissabte, 16 d’abril de 2016, a les 3:05:38 CEST, Thomas Pfeiffer va escriure: > On Freitag, 15. April 2016 17:46:45 CEST Albert Vaca wrote: > > What's the problem with pinging the Neon servers? Any system already does > > way more than that when checking for updates, not to mention when you > > connect to a website, or even IRC. > > > > How can this ping be violating any privacy if we don't even need to store > > the IP, just a unique ID? We can even generate the ID ourselves so it > > can't > > be matched with other sources. I don't see how this can have any impact to > > privacy nor any other use than counting people using Neon. > > > > I don't understand this extremism and I'm sad to see it in our community, > > specially when other free projects like Firefox have been collecting way > > more complex analytics (opt-out) for a while with a positive impact for > > them. > > Firefox uses a pretty obvious opt-out, though. Yes, the box is checked by > default, but it shows it explicitly to users at the first run, they don't > have to actively look for it in the settings. > > I am all for more analytics (probably more than many others, given that I'm > a user researcher), we really need that, but users have to be clear about > what's going on. Firefox provides that. This sort of opt-out would be fine > with me, we really just have to make it very obvious.
+1 Firefox does it well (imho) and i have not seen any backslash about it, so kudos to its researchers that came up with it. Cheers, Albert > > _______________________________________________ > kde-community mailing list > kde-community@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
