On Fri, 2015-02-13 at 23:48 +0100, Spekular R wrote: > I'd like to make a very important distinction. Opt-in analytics are > totally fine with me. Opt-out analytics not so much. > Yeah, I know that opt-out isn't terribly popular due to the bad reputation analytics have gotten due to shady business practices. The problem is that the vast majority of users tend to leave EVERYTHING at the defaults. This is why ridiculous numbers of users are still using their default browser, default search engine, etc. It takes a significant amount of pain before most of them can be bothered to figure out how to change anything. So the problem is, the group of people who would benefit the most (and care the least) will never opt-in unless it's done for them.
Opt-out, if done properly (i.e. collecting only what's really needed to support the app) and still providing the user an easy and transparent way to do so (i.e. no hiding opting out, no automatic re-enabling etc.), is probably the best compromise most cases. For most commercial software the argument is already over: it's mostly forced opt-in with a small number of developers offering opt out (or worse: the larger players put on a bit of opt-out privacy theater which is mostly pointless). That said, I don't know that opt-in or opt-out even matters for LMMS at this stage as the plate seems to be pretty full with the information already available. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
