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Opt-in analytics are useless, unless a large part of your userbase just clicks through the entire wizard without thinking; there’s little overlap with Homebrew’
by pancrufty 4y ago
Opt-in analytics are useless, unless a large part of your userbase just clicks through the entire wizard without thinking; there’s little overlap with Homebrew’s userbase
- mola 4y agoOk, so don't do analytics.
- hardware2win 4y agoThen have worse product for the users?
- closewith 4y agoYes, you don't get to decide to violate your users' rights and surveil them because you think it will improve your product.
- hardware2win 4y ago1 it is their choice what soft they use, isnt it? Its not like chromium on android being pushed on you 2 there is "reasonable" / "good faith" data that in my opinion can be sent e.g crash log, stats like e.g package popularity etc. You just create drama over nothing. Ive used data like this to improve my soft countless times and there is nothing shady at all, everything is about what you collect. Theres difference between keylogger or stealing nudes and tech data
- drivers99 4y ago> it is their choice what soft they use, isnt it Yes. More evidence for an observation I've been having that ultimately the software is always about what the creator of the software wants, and not the user. I'm working on moving to running only my own software for that reason.
- microtonal 4y agoHomebrew was fine before they started collecting analytics. There are plenty of great package managers outside the macOS ecosystem that don't use analytics.
- hardware2win 4y agoSo, just because you werent affected then no one was?
- throwaway5959 4y agoYes, hardware2win, have a worse product. Not everything needs to be phoning home all the time.
- stalfosknight 4y agoNot my problem. They don't have a right to spy on users.
- sigzero 4y agoStop it. They are not spying on users.
- stalfosknight 4y agoAnytime "analytics" are opt-out instead of opt-in is spying in my book.
- _ph_ 4y ago"The alternative is useless" is not a valid legal defense.