[fab] Re: Firefox splash page tracker

Greg DeKoenigsberg gdk at redhat.com
Thu Oct 5 14:17:41 UTC 2006


On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Thursday 05 October 2006 00:19, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> > There is a subset of users -- we don't know how large -- who will never
> > use yum because either (a) they won't have the bandwidth to use it, or (b)
> > they won't even understand that they need to use it.
> 
> But thats OK because yum-updatesd runs by default and hits the webpage FOR 
> them.

I did not know that.  If that's the case, then it's an absolute 
no-brainer.

The rich irony here, of course, is that rather than tell users we're 
tracking them, we will instead be able to track them invisibly through the 
normal operation of their systems.  But I'm perfectly happy either way, 
so.

--g

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