From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 10 23:35:38 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8FD6FE8; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:35:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from royce.williams@gmail.com) Received: from mail-lb0-f182.google.com (mail-lb0-f182.google.com [209.85.217.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37A3C8FC13; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:35:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f182.google.com with SMTP id go10so3141706lbb.13 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:35:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=uCI2+lypk/0jbvBTCDWZ2TD6EPeQM3ir3EF+NfpuI8o=; b=SugSRRzXY6+m56SSBH60fToi4HwlDWY+9XlBp+syWgy9u0U/Oz+851gz88ctqYLtVg TcEe6wRj2HTM4uG0nuoeisDYb9vs1lGGkusUL1EDdcjZjHFRta/zpQTSuDLfdNKeHt4x Jr/M1cEHKdZIaHCmT2hH9A+pxKsXZY/d2ljeH3M50gw1bpiJ5zewgc7eVr0M/IVWPNNM 1CsID7faDdSd5qz0eEIKrhkITHqS1SE0rlZGwI1gA4k7D6GqnDIYQ+1P28Q9bXwlyFX/ hvkOP1cYEsyfoKM8JMdYg05uCG2pTufccTXOoSpGl4gw8iztqOhiyjqBwp3rRkPmYtYw wGRA== Received: by 10.112.23.34 with SMTP id j2mr6811627lbf.118.1355182536750; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:35:36 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: royce.williams@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.134.199 with HTTP; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:35:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20121210093841.GP69108@e-new.0x20.net> References: <20121210093841.GP69108@e-new.0x20.net> From: Royce Williams Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:35:16 -0900 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ARw0RSDsq9eEnoZTKOG2mM5awDg Message-ID: Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Project is enabling Google Analytics on www.freebsd.org To: Lars Engels Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: "deeptech71@gmail.com" , "freebsd-chat@freebsd.org" , gjb@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:35:39 -0000 On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Lars Engels wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 03:36:17PM +0100, deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: >> Glen Barber wrote: >> > The FreeBSD Project is enabling Google Analytics on www.freebsd.org. >> >> Congratulations, by choosing probably the easiest-to-use but >> most-threatening-to-users tracking system, you have successfully >> managed to display amateurism on part of the web site's staff. > There are probably millions of websites that use GA. > Have you already complained to the their operators about using GA? If > not, please do so. Whoa. While the rhetoric has been a little heated, I think that deeptech71's point is that it is precisely the ubiquitousness of GA that makes it more dangerous. This response adds to the heat but does not respond to his technical points. I'm no conspiracy theorist, and GA's reports are excellent, but if there is some way for the FreeBSD project to get 80% of the functionality without sending the data to a third party, I'd be in favor of that. Royce