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Mandatory reporting of usage statistics runs contrary to one of the freedoms inherent to FOSS, that the software is for the user's freedom. But surely there sh
by em3rgent0rdr 3y ago
Mandatory reporting of usage statistics runs contrary to one of the freedoms inherent to FOSS, that the software is for the user's freedom.
But surely there should be a way to reconcile no-spying with usage reporting through some voluntary means. For example, Debian allows users to install the popularity-contest package.
- hutzlibu 3y ago"Mandatory reporting of usage statistics runs contrary to one of the freedoms inherent to FOSS, that the software is for the user's freedom." Why? You don't need to do tracking, just have a counter on the server that increases every time someone downloads the repository. What does this have to do with FOSS?
- blntechie 3y agoThat's how Google Analytics started.
- hutzlibu 3y agoNo it is not. A counter on the website was a gimmick from the early web days and google analytics had a very different purpose from the beginning.
- em3rgent0rdr 3y agoSuch a download counter is not an accurate measure of usage.
- gitgud 3y agoWhat other ways could you rank by popularity then?
- pserwylo 3y agoThis is the discussion on implementing a popcon-style feature in F-Droid if you want to read through where the project got to: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/396 https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/396