Raphael Hertzog, 2010-11-09 10:41:40 +0100 : [...]
> BTW you complain that a flattr image allows flattr to track your > browsing habits when there are many other stuff tracking you already > and that are not so "visible", like feedburner. I also complain about them, but their existence doesn't excuse adding more of them. [...] > While I can understand the privacy concerns, and while I support that > Debian provides software that by default protect the privacy of users, > I don't think that Debian needs to have an official policy on this > topic as far as Planet Debian is concerned. When you're reading blogs > or any web page, you know that you leave many traces and it's a choice > of the user about how much to accept, by using or not the extensions > that are meant to mitigate this problem. Let me disagree there. This argument is similar to the “oh, but you can always opt-out of our spam^Wnewsletter by clicking here” argument. Annoying stuff, whether ads or spying, should be opt-in, period. If the source insists on making it opt-out, then I'm in favour of filtering it at the intermediary stage (the aggregator, in this case). > BTW, I would be happy if I could self-host a feedburner like service > to gather my stats and avoid leaking that information to third > parties. But AFAIK there's no free software doing this currently. And > I don't want to write it myself. And I need this because I'm trying to > be professional about my blogging activities and I need figures to see > how my articles are doing and whether I'm on the right track or not. Do I read this correctly as meaning that you consider this spying on Planet Debian's readers' browsing habits a feature that you use for professional purposes? If so, I'm inclined to disagree vehemently with it. If not, please correct my misapprehension. Roland. -- Roland Mas $ chown -R us:us your_base* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/871v6u7oqa....@mirexpress.internal.placard.fr.eu.org
