[PD-dev] Survey (was Re: opt-in usage statistics 'phone home')
Chris McCormick
chris at mccormick.cx
Sun Nov 12 04:25:18 CET 2006
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 06:21:50PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> >I am against the idea of Pd 'phoning home' for the same reasons as
> >Tim,
>
> I am a strong advocate of privacy, and I think this can be done
> without any violation of privacy. There are a number of ways to do
> this:
>
> - having it an opt-in
> - make it overt (i.e. pops up a window to ask permission each time)
> - make the code open-source (people can see exactly what it is doing)
> - make the unique ID a resettable random number (i.e. stored in prefs)
>
> If you have cookie support turned on in your browser, then you are
> being tracked. 99% of people allow cookies at least some of the
> time. Most of the time none of the above conditions apply to how
> websites use cookies.
>
> Then, on top of this, I think it is very good to have working
> examples of how to do this while maintaining privacy. Right now,
> companies, governments, etc. implement such systems with few privacy
> protections because its easier and there aren't working examples of
> how to do it better.
Sounds like Debian's "popularity contest". Ok, I'm convinced.
> >and I think it would be too hard to get the code into all the
> >different
> >versions of Pd out there anyway.
>
> It would be trivial to get the code into Pd-extended.
Cool!
Chris.
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