https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44327
--- Comment #19 from Adam Wight <s...@ludd.net> --- There are two more alternative ways to solve the problem, which I had not considered earlier. 1. Since there is other potentially identifying information transmitted from the client (user-agent, other IDs), perhaps there is no privacy concern at all, and the problem is only that we are being sloppy and rude. 2. The functional reason to use something like js: mediaWiki.user.id() -- the real culprit behind ClickTracking's bad behavior -- is to correlate data between sessions. Where this only being used for UX feedback, we could back off data collection so that, for example, a user is guaranteed to participate in the study for only one consecutive intersession interval. This means that their cookie would reset after data is sampled, so there is nothing identifying to tie the 1st-2nd sessions with the 3rd and continuing... -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
