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To help us improve the editor, Atom sends usage information to Google Analytics. See [atom/metrics](https://github.com/atom/metrics https://github.com/atom/metr

To help us improve the editor, Atom sends usage information to Google Analytics. See [atom/metrics](https://github.com/atom/metrics https://github.com/atom/metrics) for details. More data going to Google without opting in first? Bummer.

zackboe 13y ago
From the page you link to: If you do not want this information reported, disable this package from the Metrics section of the Settings view (cmd-,).
- phaer 13y ago
  I suppose that's why skennedy writes "without opting in first". What you describe is called "opt out", it's the opposite of opt in.
ihuman 13y ago
I know it's a stretch, but technically, you are opting in by downloading and running the program, and therefor accepting some sort of privacy policy or ToS.
mcovey 13y ago
echo ' 127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com 127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com 127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com' >> /etc/hosts
- tuananh 13y ago
  and remove it whenever i want to access GA !?
  - nilved 13y ago
    Why are you using GA if you hate GA?
    - tuananh 13y ago
      I wanna track stats of my websites; not be tracked by the code editor.
      - deleted 13y ago
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      - deleted 13y ago
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      - nilved 13y ago
        Don't be a hypocrite. Tracking is tracking is tracking and it's as wrong when you do it as it is for anybody else. Show your users some respect and value their privacy.
victorhooi 13y ago
See, I never get the tinfoil hat crowd. Are any of us so self-important, that we think our usage stats for a text editor are some kind of top-secret data? I mean, come on - it's a text editor - I edit my scratchpad and my coding projects on it. If any of the stuff I had was that top-secret, I'd be doing it in a digital clean-room, with an airgap. And I'd actually have top-secret clearance. How many of us here actually have top secret clearance? I'd bet very few...lol. And I doubt they'd be posting here, or admit it. My list of text files I have open is quite frankly, is not that interesting. I don't really care if Google wants to mine it. Or if Github finds out I edit a document called "Lolcat images" fifteen times a day. I seriously doubt any Githubber is going to be sitting there, pouring through logs looking for salacious information about the documents I edit...
- shittyanalogy 13y ago
  Some people with lives "not that interesting" don't want to give up their privacy. Some of us even understand that there is no such thing as "anonymous statistics". It's not about a big government spying conspiracy. It's about basic privacy and not giving out data about yourself that you don't want to give out. There are also enormous trust implications.
  - victorhooi 13y ago
    Hmm - but let's take your idea and think it through to it's completion. It's fine to say, oh but the privacy! But that in itself isn't an argument. It's just an appeal to emotion, with no facts. What do you think will happen if Github has usage data on how you use their text editor? Or what do you think will happen if Google knows what websites you search for? These aren't rhetorical questions - I'm actually curious what scenarios people actually think will play out. I find it unlikely that Google/Github would publicly publish that information on their websites. I also find it unlikely that an individual person would ever view your data. What other scenarios do you believe will happen? Now, if the government were involved, that's a completely different kettle of fish.
    - Dewie 13y ago

zackboe 13y ago

From the page you link to: If you do not want this information reported, disable this package from the Metrics section of the Settings view (cmd-,).

phaer 13y ago
I suppose that's why skennedy writes "without opting in first". What you describe is called "opt out", it's the opposite of opt in.

ihuman 13y ago

I know it's a stretch, but technically, you are opting in by downloading and running the program, and therefor accepting some sort of privacy policy or ToS.

mcovey 13y ago

echo ' 127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com 127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com 127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com' >> /etc/hosts

tuananh 13y ago
and remove it whenever i want to access GA !?
- nilved 13y ago
  Why are you using GA if you hate GA?
  - tuananh 13y ago
    I wanna track stats of my websites; not be tracked by the code editor.
    - deleted 13y ago
      [deleted]
    - deleted 13y ago
      [deleted]
    - nilved 13y ago
      Don't be a hypocrite. Tracking is tracking is tracking and it's as wrong when you do it as it is for anybody else. Show your users some respect and value their privacy.

victorhooi 13y ago

See, I never get the tinfoil hat crowd. Are any of us so self-important, that we think our usage stats for a text editor are some kind of top-secret data? I mean, come on - it's a text editor - I edit my scratchpad and my coding projects on it. If any of the stuff I had was that top-secret, I'd be doing it in a digital clean-room, with an airgap. And I'd actually have top-secret clearance. How many of us here actually have top secret clearance? I'd bet very few...lol. And I doubt they'd be posting here, or admit it. My list of text files I have open is quite frankly, is not that interesting. I don't really care if Google wants to mine it. Or if Github finds out I edit a document called "Lolcat images" fifteen times a day. I seriously doubt any Githubber is going to be sitting there, pouring through logs looking for salacious information about the documents I edit...

shittyanalogy 13y ago
Some people with lives "not that interesting" don't want to give up their privacy. Some of us even understand that there is no such thing as "anonymous statistics". It's not about a big government spying conspiracy. It's about basic privacy and not giving out data about yourself that you don't want to give out. There are also enormous trust implications.
- victorhooi 13y ago
  Hmm - but let's take your idea and think it through to it's completion. It's fine to say, oh but the privacy! But that in itself isn't an argument. It's just an appeal to emotion, with no facts. What do you think will happen if Github has usage data on how you use their text editor? Or what do you think will happen if Google knows what websites you search for? These aren't rhetorical questions - I'm actually curious what scenarios people actually think will play out. I find it unlikely that Google/Github would publicly publish that information on their websites. I also find it unlikely that an individual person would ever view your data. What other scenarios do you believe will happen? Now, if the government were involved, that's a completely different kettle of fish.
  - Dewie 13y ago