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Thanks to kuangning for posting this.

Livejournal announces stat gathering changes

I'm curious as to other people's opinions on this. On the surface, at least to me, it looks somewhat harmless. However, there's not much known about the service they're using to gather these statistics, so I'm a bit apprehensive.

There is an opt-out option, thankfully. Just go to the Admin Console and type "set opt_exclude_stats 1"

I'm just wondering other people's thoughts on this. I realize a lot of people will likely opt out of the data gathering, but I'm curious as to what the overall concensus is (to kind of foster some sort of discussion, at least. I need brain fuel!).

Comments

[etherpunk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's where the discussion on this issue has been heading. I'm not worried about it. The fact they give you an opt-out option is a nice deal, but if it's just anonymous data, opting out would sort of skew the results a bit, right?

[shippo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, opting out would skew the data a bit, but it's probably not enough to be statistically relevant.