Sophisticated user-tracking now live
I just installed a local tracking and analysis software because I am interested how users interact with this website. Normal webserver logs are not enough.
Only I (and of course theoretically my server provider) have access to the data. IP addresses are anonymised. I do not match the user accounts to the visitor statistics. You can opt-out (this requires you to save cookies). If you feel that this is bad, please tell me so. Either here or in private at spirit % quaddicted . com.
14.06.2011 21:51
It is honorable that you mention this here. I usually opt-out of services that create profiles which can be mapped to a certain account or even person (e.g., at Facebook) to offer personalized adds or something like that, but anonymized user statistics and tracking with the purpose of improving a website are perfectly fine with me. Especially for a website like this.
15.06.2011 19:33
Thanks for your trust!
I am an huge opponent of all the data mongering myself so it felt somewhat dirty to do this. So far it is quite interesting and thus worth the “dirt” though.
18.06.2011 16:32
Anyone seen this ?
http://uk.pc.gamespy.com/pc/quake/1177037p1.html
It’s not really saying anything, but it’s Quake related.
Hope they do it.
And they do it good and proper, not like that horrible Duke game …