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Re: tracking our readers? (Re: Testing Discourse for Debian - Moderation concepts)



On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 08:22:22AM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 02:31:23PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> > > The trust system gives me no trust at all. It is very closely bound to
> > > participation over the web interface, monitors the reading frequency and time
> > > spent on reading by users.
> > [1]  https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-post-tracking-work-in-discourse/115790
> 
> thanks for pointing this out, Sean. This makes even using discourse
> inaccepable to me, sorry.

I think the problem isn't tracking itself. I'd trust Debian blindly
in that :-)

For me, the problem is the kind of anti-pattern promoted by this.

> I also wonder where we will store this private data of our users, how
> we will protect it and how users can request their data to be deleted.

AsI said -- I'd espect Debian to not even collect that data. But
even considering use a tool whose makers subscribe to that way
of thinking seems iffy to me.

Cheers
-- tomás

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