As the author of a popular WordPress theme, I would like to add my strong agreement with the opt-in only policy for trackers such as PressTrends.<br><br>I find Trent Lapinski's arguments for the harmlessness of opt-out tracking self-serving and disingenuous. Anyone with the least bit of understanding of the difference between opt-in and opt-out, and how that affects user privacy, would never argue for allowing any kind of automatic or opt-out tracking of any kind in any repository based WordPress theme. It is simply the wrong thing to do.<br>
<br>Maybe PressTrends isn't any different in concept or privacy issues than Google's tracking code, or even WP stats, but both of those are opt-in - they don't happen unless the web admin actively adds them.<br>
<br>Personally, I believe any sort of tracking should require permission from the visitor to the site - but that is a much larger battle.<br><br>Bruce Wampler<br>