A while ago Albert gave a talk at Akademy about collecting some data on our users. This got me thinking and with Neon I wanted to see how many installs we had. Our package install software will check for new versions being available and I could count the IPs of this check but that's very unreliable. Canonical counts IPs from the NTP ping at boot up but of course it's only useful at best as a relative metric of numbers of installs not absolute numbers. So I added a machine-id to the URL it checks which is the unique value set at install time by systemd (/etc/machine-id) so now it has a good idea of being able to count the number of installs.
But KDE cares about privacy and it's in our Vision and I don't want to be accused of violating that. But currently I can't see how this can violate users privacy any more than an IP address can so I'm curious to hear what arguments might come up against this. Jonathan _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
