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There are less offensive ways
There are less offensive ways
Posted Oct 12, 2006 5:49 UTC (Thu) by jamesh (subscriber, #1159)In reply to: There are less offensive ways by horen
Parent article: How many Fedora users are there?
Last time I installed a mozilla.org/mozilla.com Firefox release (a few years back), it sent me to mozilla.org web page the first time I started it up. That sounds quite similar to what the Fedora guys are suggesting.
So installation tracking doesn't seem to be a reason to pick upstream over distribution releases in this particular case ...
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There are less offensive ways
Posted Oct 12, 2006 15:08 UTC (Thu) by jstAusr (guest, #27224) [Link]
There is a difference, the image is not visible to the user, that is an active attempt to deceive the user. Gathering information in that way is strange at best. They already have the information from their servers and they know what it costs to provide the service. Using a hidden image isn't going to change anything in a positive way and the counts are still not going to be accurate.
There are less offensive ways
Posted Oct 13, 2006 7:24 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
The huge message around it saying `this is a tracking image, this is whatit is for, this is why we are doing it' would tend to contradict your
little conspiracy theory.