On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org> wrote:
> 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. > > To acomplish all the goals you've listed we don't need any UID at all. If you want to count installs, change the client software to add a parameter only on the first run and count that. 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
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