Re: [Monotone-devel] [offtopic] Google Analytics for monotone's website

[Florian Weimer]

* Thomas Keller:

> There are two downsides, though: The first is that only HTML contents
> can be tracked, but not individually downloaded files, since Google
> only notices those contents from which the Javascript code is
> executed, so afaik its not possible to generate download statistics
> through that [1]. The other downside is that the statistics are not
> publically viewable by everybody unless he or she is added to the
> account either as "administator" (full access) or "user"
> (read-only). The user has to give an email for which a Google account
> is registered to one of the other administrators to be added.

The other downside is that this kind of privacy-invasive technology is
usually not associated with free software projects.