Comments on: All your privacy are belong to me!

By: Wade Menard

Wade Menard — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:42:36 +0000

To some of the users above talking about blocking google-analytics…

I think this has probably come up before, but doesnt the high (i’m guessing?) percentage of Linux users using Adblock software only hurt our Linux penetration numbers as far as things with a web presence go?

Wouldn’t you want as many logs to show you are using Linux (or even your web browser) as possible?

By: ethana2

ethana2 — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:11:51 +0000

Google is awesome, and the more data people have, the more they can optimize their servers for reality. If you have any honor, don’t screw with stats.

I don’t even leave my Googlebot/2.1 or IE7 useragents on when I’m not actively doing something that needs them…. Firefox 3 is awesome.

By: John

John — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:29:04 +0000

Google Analytics requires Javascript. Anybody who shows up without Javascript won’t get counted by it. Also, anybody with any sense is running Firefox with NoScript, and also has Google Analytics blacklisted as “untrusted”. Why hand Google a pile more personal info to keep forever and use against your own interests?

By: Sayamindu

Sayamindu — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:52:16 +0000

One of the localization guys of the OLPC (me) is from India.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:24:54 +0000

Note that google analytics won’t count users whose browsers don’t support Javascript.

By: Henry

Henry — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:46:36 +0000

Re: stats discrepancy. I adblock google-analytics.com, and I suspect I’m not the only one.

By: Not A Witty Nick

Not A Witty Nick — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:30:21 +0000

I heard that Novell has fired that team and some top executives too, few weeks back.

Nokia has got a development unit in Bangalore… would they have ventured?

By: Elroy

Elroy — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:21:39 +0000

Hmm, I might be mistaken but isn’t evolution maintained (partly) in India?