I don't think he's on this mailing list, so I'm CCing Gareth Cull, who is the Analytics Engineer for mozilla.org. He can answer any specific questions about why a particular type of tracking was put on mozilla.org (which may give insight into the greater purpose of this kind of analytics).
I'm not sure which specific page you're asking about, though. The tour? And which button? - Mike Kelly On 4/30/14 5:09 PM, Florent Fayolle wrote: > The question about using GA or not is crucial but rather a long-term question > [1]. > What worries me the most here is the AJAX requests made at each click on that > page. > > I agree with Benoit: we can't reassure our users by some little clauses > accessible on some page on the web, because they won't read it. The users > will focus on the screenshot of the tweet I posted above, think that Mozilla > is tracking everything they do on that page, and laugh at what we say about > Mozilla doing for their privacy. So, at least, that's bad for our image > (especially in this time where Prism has been revealed). > > Also, I wonder the purpose of collecting this data and especially by this way > (that is, sending for each click). It looks like you would like to know how > the user navigates in the tutorial. Maybe you (or the team in charge of this > page) could clarify this? Wouldn't knowing the number of people going through > the tutorial be enough? > > [1] Even though this question is important for me too, and I am also a bit > sad that we use Google Analytics instead of another free-software we could > dope like what Mozilla did with Theora. > > Florent > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > governance@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
