[fab] Re: Firefox splash page tracker

[Christopher Blizzard]

Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> 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.

"hitting a web page" isn't an interesting metric to me.  50,000 hits 
isn't as interesting as 5,000 users.  And hits do not translate into 
users.  Cookies let you pick out users, as do explicit registration 
tools.  And they give you some sense of use and length of use.  Hits don't.

> 
> 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.

Not tracking.  Just counting.

--Chris