Shoutbox

Just to let you know: no feature will be removed from Plus!. I'm sure all of them are used, even my a minority of people. However, I'll put my time on the features that are widely used, and that's why the stats are important.

It's a great way of advancing Plus to the next level and discovering what features can be advanced even futher.

It's a good idea, Patchou, and due to I trust you in the fact that it doesn't collect personal info, I have it enabled (yes, i have the translator beta ), unlike the similar feature of messenger (which i always disable)

I fully support the idea and I love to see Plus! Progress and fully trust you, but I think for the newer users a Privacy Policy on this feature should be embedded in the program and instead of being on by default, it should request authorization on the first running of Plus! if it can or cannot.

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Originally posted by Dane

I fully support the idea and I love to see Plus! Progress and fully trust you, but I think for the newer users a Privacy Policy on this feature should be embedded in the program and instead of being on by default, it should request authorization on the first running of Plus! if it can or cannot.

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we discussed it on irc and thought that it would be the best way.

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Originally posted by Dane
I fully support the idea and I love to see Plus! Progress and fully trust you, but I think for the newer users a Privacy Policy on this feature should be embedded in the program and instead of being on by default, it should request authorization on the first running of Plus! if it can or cannot.

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I agree with dane, however i think its not ment to be to put on everything an authorization while its actually not nessesary and it even can get annoying too all those authorization marks.

and keep up the good work patchou

Well, te thing is: if I prompt a mesage asking the user, most people will refuse because they will be afraid, so I can't do that, my stats wouldn't be useful anymore. You can monitor the connection if you want, the stats are sent once a week alongwith the autoupdate request. You'll see that there are only a bunch of php parameters equal to 1 and the country set in your Windows local settings, nothing more

Excellent idea Patchou, in this way Msg Plus! will become even better (if it isn't already the best )

What is Messenger Plus? Don't tell me I have came to the wrong forums or something.

Blah.. I try my hardest

Excellent news of the new release Patchou.

I'm sure you'll have a new advertising campaign for your Plus! merchandise soon too.. If you know what I mean

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Originally posted by Patchou
Well, te thing is: if I prompt a mesage asking the user, most people will refuse because they will be afraid, so I can't do that, my stats wouldn't be useful anymore.

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true. but if you're not asking it people will complaint that plus! is sending data to its server, therefore it is some kind of spyware if you don't ask it. there's lots of spyware that sends your visited websites to it's server, and you can uninstall it if you want

conclusion: not asking = spyware.