Metrics and your privacy

[Antonio Olivares]

--- Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> Mike McGrath:
> >> I think you guys are focusing too much on
> semantics.  Yum, updates,
> >> checking for updates, caching, blah.  What we're
> talking about is a
> >> phone home mechanism that can easily be disabled
> at install time.
> 
> Andy Green:
> > Capturing that information by the existing traffic
> with Fedora mirrors
> > is a neat solution that gives you ongoing stats
> using information that
> > all users of the mirrors are content to let out
> already.
> 
> I would have thought that how much use the mirrors
> get is more valuable
> information.  That lets you know how much people
> want the updates (they
> bother, or don't bother to update), and how much
> resources you,
> therefore, need to pour into providing the service.
> 
> There isn't going to be any way that you could know
> how many
> installations were made.  That sort of statistical
> analysis is always
> going to be significantly wrong.

You are correct.  It will be impossible to find out
the exact number of installations.  No matter what
they do, users will decide whether they want to do
anything that is asked of them.

Regards,

Antonio 

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