Instead of insisting to use a tool or another, I think that the main point should be the security.
What happens to all these data, who takes care of them, who will read them, where they will be published.
Third party or not the recurrent topic of free software is always badly managed because we consider that the open software is automatically secure.
Honestly I would suggest you to switch your mind and to stress the point of the security instead.
In Europe there is a strong stress of this issues with the GDPR exactly to vehiculate the message that what is free may not free at all.
Personally I would prefer someone saying to use another solution because the personal date are safer and not to use another tool only because is not of a third party.
Kind regards
On 13/02/2021 16:40, Fæ wrote:
As a consequence of the promotion of a Google forms based survey this week by a WMF representative, a proposal on Wikimedia Commons has been started to ban the promotion of surveys which rely on third party sites like Google Forms.[1]
Launched today, but already it appears likely that this proposal will have a consensus to support. Considering that Commons is one of our largest Wikimedia projects, there are potential repercussions of banning the on-wiki promotion of surveys which use Google products or other closed source third party products like SurveyMonkey.
Feedback is most welcome on the proposal discussion, or on this list for handling impact, solutions, recommended alternatives that already exist, or the future role of the WMF to support research and surveys for the WMF and affiliates by using forking open source software and self-hosting and self-managing data "locally".
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Thanks Fae