RE: [GD-General] Collecting info from players

[<ma...@ch...>]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Ivan-Assen Ivanov wrote:

> I agree that there should be a way to turn the system off,
> but any visible mentions of it, and especially defaulting to "no",
> will reduce greatly the number of submitted reports.

And? That simply means that you wont be able to take the data they would 
have provided into consideration... So, if people wish for you to cater 
for their pattern of usage/hardware platform/whatever, they can enable it. 

So, if I wish for you to know that I am running Linux, I will say, OK, 
give this information away, because that may improve the Linux support. If 
I do not care, thats just my fault/problem.

Its funny - you/we would never think of _demanding_ that people submit
information about themselves to _buy_ your game, but just because it is
technically feasible to automatically collect this kind of information, 
you/we whip up all kind of arguments for it to be the default behaviour. 

I do not like that kind of rationale.

Of course, I am one of those guys that does run a privacy/no ads proxy.

Mads

P.S. Please understand that there is nothing personal in this post - I am 
a bit uncertain on how to express this in english but I am not trying to 
flame anyone.

-- 
Mads Bondo Dydensborg.                               ma...@ch...
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