[theme-reviewers] Tracking for themes&plugins

[Chip Bennett]

Personally, I hate any form of such user data tracking with the fire of a
thousand burning suns.

But, per current precedent, as long as the tracking is fully disclosed, and
disabled by default, it is acceptable.


On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Codeinwp <support at codeinwp.com> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I am thinking for a while at a opt-in tracking solution for our themes and
> plugins that don't bother users/wp.org, but still help us build better
> products and understand our users and I haven't seen any debate here, so I
> am starting it :) .
>
> I came across yoast seo plugin which implement an opt-in tracking that
> tracks : posts/comments/theme used/plugins used/pages/number of users and
> of course since they receive the tracking request from a site, they can
> relate those things with thisismysite.com ( no user tracking, unless you
> subscribe ) .
>
> Is this completely acceptable by everyone ?
>
>
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