[theme-reviewers] tracking code in themes

[Trent Lapinski]

PressTrends excludes localhost and dev environments. It only gives data on sites that are online.

Again, a simple web spider can be used to index any website online to get this data. It's not wrong. 

Again, I am not purposing anything unethical here, I am simply pointing out that analytic data is as old as the internet itself, and version tracking for software of any kind is incredibly valuable.

--Trent Lapinski
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On Mar 9, 2012, at 1:36 PM, "Thomas Scholz" <thomas.scholz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Trent Lapinski,
> 
>> There is no data being taken from the user that is being used without their consent.
>> 
>> These are PUBLICLY available websites, anyone can go to these websites because they are live on the internet and view their stylesheets and see the version number of the the theme they are using, or count the number of posts they have. This is not USER data, these are publicly available analytics.
> 
> Sorry, that’s wrong. About 30% of the sites I manage are not public. And the real number of posts is not so easy visible on many sites.
> 
>> There is nothing to consent to, just like there is nothing to consent to every time you view any website on the internet that has analytic software of any kind.
> 
> In German laws there is. And there are many other countries with strict privacy laws.
> 
> Thomas
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