How would you feel about collecting anon data?

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How would you feel about collecting anon data?

New postby marwatk on Sat Apr 11, 2009 7:03 pm

Hi guys,

I want to implement some sort of top 10 list of podcasts, but right now I'm not collecting any data on what people are subscribed to over time. (I do see when people use the online browser, but that's only from my web server logs).

What I'd like to do is have PodTrapper upload anonymous data about what subscriptions are on the device when it checks for updates. There'd be no way to trace the data back to a user or device, and there'd be a configuration option to disable it altogether, but for it to work it needs to default to 'on', so I wanted to get feedback as to whether people would freak out about this or not.

Thoughts?

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Re: How would you feel about collecting anon data?

New postby Neuroxic77 on Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:41 pm

Sounds good to me.
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Re: How would you feel about collecting anon data?

New postby delorean on Mon Apr 13, 2009 3:03 pm

I wouldn't mind.... but if you do default it to on, I'm sure it should display a dialog warning me that it is going to upload this anonymous data, instead of just doing it behind the scenes.
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Re: How would you feel about collecting anon data?

New postby ammonsd on Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:57 pm

Sounds like a good idea. Would not be any more of a privacy issue than what Apple, Google and Amazon do today.
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Re: How would you feel about collecting anon data?

New postby mtech on Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:16 pm

As long as opt-out is default, and opt-in has to be a user choice, I'm game.
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Re: How would you feel about collecting anon data?

New postby Tripper_ on Tue Aug 25, 2009 4:08 pm

mtech wrote:As long as opt-out is default, and opt-in has to be a user choice, I'm game.


I agree with mtech.
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Re: How would you feel about collecting anon data?

New postby marwatk on Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:42 pm

The problem with opting you out by default is that people who aren't really sure what they're doing would never enable it, which would hurt all users. I ended up settling on notifying users that they've been opted in, and allowing them to opt-out at that time (or turn off the notification).

(This has actually been in place since 2.1.0)

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