[Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third partycompanies #2

[Happy-melon]

bug18898 (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18898) is relevant, 
both in the technical response proposed, which is more appropriate for the 
parallel wikitech-l thread, and in that the wiki in question is frwiki.  The 
external URL linked (http://pacli.appspot.com/posterstats/tick) seems to be 
clearly a stats-collector which probably has similar privacy issues.  I 
closed the bug as not being relevant to MediaWiki itself, but asked the OP 
to take it to frwiki's admins, the Wikimedia Forum on meta, or the 
Ombudsmen, depending on how severe they thought it.  It doesn't look like 
any of these options were taken.  Is this something that should also be 
looked at in the same way?

--HM