Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️
I actually love %99.99 of what you do. That said I'm still rather disturbed that the "Welcome to Loops" email used Amazon tracking for every single link. It made me wonder what other tracking was being used elsewhere, and to what end. I and two other people directly mentioned you about it a month ago, and got no reply:
https://social.tchncs.de/@loops@pixelfed.social/113453370999825861
That definitely gave me pause on a project that I had been 100% behind beforehand.
Daniel Supernault
@fossdd how do you mean?
fossdd @ FOSDEM
@dansup leader sounds a bit harsh
Daniel Supernault
@Blort Hey, I totally understand you and want you to know that I removed that after I was informed about it.
I'm using a new mail provider and enabled that during testing, but didn't disable it after we launched, so it affected a few people.
That being said, the trackers have been removed (you can test this by resetting your password for example) and want y'all to know that privacy is a priority, and since Loops will be open source, you can ensure you have total control over this!
Daniel Supernault
@Blort yeah, sorry about that.
You should know that Pixelfed and my other projects don't contain any analytics or trackers, and this was an unintentional mistake.
There is no need to collect those kind of stats since we are an open source platform, and it was our mail provider that collected those stats by rewriting the urls in the mail body.
It won't happen again!
Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️
Thanks for your reply and for fixing this.
I didn't think that it seemed to jive with what I'd seen of your choices in the past, which is why I originally brought it up. When we got no reply I didn't know quite what to think, although I always try to give the benefit of the doubt.
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