[Foundation-l] Google Analytics on Wikimania site

[Gary Kirk]

Fair enough :)

On 18/10/2007, Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org> wrote:
>
> Gary Kirk wrote:
>
> >What's the big deal?
>
> As Erik wrote, it conflicts with the privacy policy. You are sharing the
> browsing habits of people with a 3rd party without informed consent.
>
> The forces, companies, and individuals who work on the Internet can be
> divided into a number of broad camps, one - containing Google - wants to
> know every little detail they can so they have valuable statistics for
> their
> search results, and their advertisers. Or in other words, for commercial
> purposes.
>
> Whole networks such as Tor have been set up to allow people to avoid this
> prying, there is a thriving market for little tools that clean out the
> tracking cookies, and people want to be able to say "It's none of your
> damn
> business what pages I look at on the Internet".
>
> At least I do.
>
>
> Brian.
>
>
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Gary Kirk