How naked should I make my product?

Re:How naked should I make my product? by eshvk on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @01:25PM (#4168010)

Your reasoning makes complete sense to me from a UX perspective. However, how does a company get any sort of demographic information if they can't track the user reliably? Apart from all the evil reasons to do that, there must be some critical places where user data helps in making a product better.

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Re:How naked should I make my product? by jasonkester on Thursday June 28, 2012 @04:09AM (#4170735)

Think about the alternatives you're comparing:

[Frictionless]: cookie + record in the database + random userid

[ForcedAccountCreation]: cookie + record in the database + arbitrary username + meaningless passwordhash

I can't think off hand of any advantage the things in that second list give you that you can't get from the things in the first one.

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Re:How naked should I make my product? by eshvk on Sunday July 01, 2012 @12:09PM (#4185149)

I will be the first one to admit that I don't know participate in the date aggregation point of the pipeline so my knowledge is rusty. Say one was designing a system where age, sex information was important. How do you keep track of this information:

1. Across multiple computers that the person might be using?

2. Expiring cookies?

Thanks

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