A tickbox in the installer wouldn't hurt, I guess?
Russell
On 27/11/16 05:48, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
I also read that article yesterday.
Because our statistics are opt in, and the user is not invited to enable them
during the installation, and they are not described in the guide or anywhere
that I'm aware of, the number of users who have found and enabled it are
minuscule and probably not representative of MacPorts users as a whole.
The lack of statistics about how many users use MacPorts and what ports they
have installed is probably hurting us.
-Ryan
On Nov 26, 2016, at 2:37 PM, Marko Käning <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
the other day I found an article on hacker news [1] which eventually made clear
that homebrew actually sends (some) data to google analytics by default [2]!
I am happy about MacPorts’ “analytics” by port mpstats being absolutely opt-in
and keeping the data within MacPorts (Clemens’ server in fact) and doesn’t try
anything funny!
Thanks, MacPorts for caring (more) about its users privacy!
Greets,
Marko
[1] https://tobiastom.name/notes/7a79eed0
[2]
https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/7f13b37b903564e2a64cea982d6b84d1aa6b800b/Library/Homebrew/utils/analytics.sh#L73-L94
