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Re:Fair Analytics: A fair and distributed alternative to Goo... by londons_explore on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @11:38AM (#14300915)
It seems that users will be very tempted to write additional "session" information, for example some kind of visitor id to the logs. They would need that to, for example, correlate which people visit the homepage with which referrer then buy a product. That's a core use of most analytics products.

Considering the raw logs are timestamped and public, that then sounds like a rather large privacy hole for the users.

I would imagine some kind of pre-aggregation happening, and then making available aggregated data instead of raw logs.

Re:Fair Analytics: A fair and distributed alternative to Goo... by vesparny84 on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @12:29PM (#14301410)
Writing additional "session" information without explicitly asking for user consent often leads to threatening user's privacy.

This is one of the main reasons for fair analytics to exist.

Re:Fair Analytics: A fair and distributed alternative to Goo... by NetOpWibby on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @02:58PM (#14302896)
I think you're missing the point. People are going to add-on the missing features anyway.