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I'd really urge the author to rethink doing something like this at all. The app looks great but those stats on the front page were an immediate turn-off for me
by hbn 3y ago
I'd really urge the author to rethink doing something like this at all. The app looks great but those stats on the front page were an immediate turn-off for me (not to mention how it pops up in what looks like an annoying cookie banner). You can talk about user activity on a web service where it makes sense to be hitting a server, but for a local app that should really just be a nice GUI for ffmpeg, I don't want my computer updating you whenever I use it with data about how I used it.
And the types of users who are going to be using something like an ffmpeg wrapper are the types who are gonna care about something like that.
It's not SaaS anyway, so why would I care about your current to-the-hour success metrics? Might as well just slap your amount of sales up there, it's less intrusive at least. Put some user testimonials, anything other than telemetry data.
- hieu_dinh 3y agoBelow changes will be implemented this week: The website: Remove the pop-up & Update privacy & ToS to mention exact what data is tracked and how to opt-in/out from anonymous telemetry The app: Add the option to opt-in/out anonymous telemetry Thanks for the feedback
- ranger_danger 3y agoI highly disagree. I think the majority of people who would pay money for a barebones ffmpeg wrapper don't care about telemetry.
- al_borland 3y agoPrivacy should be the default, not something that is done only when users care enough to fight back.
- ranger_danger 3y agoI agree with you to a point. The problem is that if most people turn it off, then developing the telemetry system was a huge waste of time and resources for not much gain. Valuable data that could have been used to improve the program without any extra work from others may be lost. Similar to Windows forcing users to update because most of them keep putting it off forever, hurting their own security.
- phantompeace 3y agoWhich users asked for devs to focus on developing a telemetry system (vs developing the app they bought)?