Comment by DrScientist
11 hours ago
> If what they want isn’t in your app, they can’t do it and it won’t show up in your data.
Excellent point.
> but if it’s not entirely opt-in, I think it is effectively spying no matter what you’re collecting, varying only along a dimension of invasiveness.
Every web page visit is logged on the http server, and that's been the default since the mid 1990's. Is that spying?
In principle, yes, I believe it is a form of spying. Not particularly invasive nor harmful, but spying nonetheless.
Logging every page visited is not a technical requirement of serving the requested resource.
> Logging every page visited is not a technical requirement of serving the requested resource.
How will you know which page is having problems being served or is having performance problems?
You won’t, but that’s not what was asked.
Logging the requested resource is not a technical requirement of serving that resource.