Plug in companies tracking your usage (with poll!)

[revvy]

So some companies track how often you use their software.

I had no idea.

Pretty naive of me, right? What with checking for updates and stuff, I guess it was obvious really.

Do all companies log this and keep a record of users per month, for example?

[Bombadil]

I don't like it. at all. When I'm in Amplitube, it notes I am 'online.'
Can't turn it off without turning off wifi.

[FapFilter]

yes i care

then again, your OS is already sending gazillions of user data per second back home, even when you've disabled exactly that, unless maybe if you are using a Linux distro (which hopefully doesn't do this aswell)

[BertKoor]

So some companies track how often you use their software.
[...]
Do all companies log this

If even one company does not, then the answer is no.

[chk071]

So some companies track how often you use their software.

Which companies?

[revvy]

So some companies track how often you use their software.
[...]
Do all companies log this

If even one company does not, then the answer is no.

Thank you Dr Spock. I was pushing towards a discussion of how widespread it might be as i don’t know, not a confirmation of the meaning of all.

[FapFilter]

only company i remember at the moment is NI, but you can disable it. wether every kind of tracking is actually completely disabled by that, who knows.

some copy protections like online verifications every now and then (or always) wouldn't even work without calling home

[revvy]

So some companies track how often you use their software.

Which companies?

Well according to the thread where you pointed out that NI do it , there’s NI, erm…dunno, that was the idea behind the thread.

Is it just them? I really don’t know, the reason I made the thread was to learn

[revvy]

Context: in the Massive X thread, Evil Dragon said Massive has loads of monthly users. I asked how he knew. He didn’t reply but chk07 said it states/implies so in Massive menu and you can turn it off. ED said nothing, so he’s either blocking me or it’s true.

Bombadil says Amplitibe is a bit nosy too.

Any more?

Does it bother you? (Poll)

[chk071]

So some companies track how often you use their software.

Which companies?

Well according to the thread where you pointed out that NI do it , there’s NI, erm…dunno, that was the idea behind the thread.

At least it's the only company which I ever had plugins from which had that option in the preferences. I don't know how many others (if any) do it.

Personally, I don't have an issue with it, same with usage metrics. Actually, the latter is a great thing, because, that does what everyone is always demanding from companies: Listening to the user, i.e. checking which features are used the most.

[chk071]

Context: in the Massive X thread, Evil Dragon said Massive has loads of monthly users. I asked how he knew. He didn’t reply but chk07 said it states/implies so in Massive menu and you can turn it off. ED said nothing, so he’s either blocking me or it’s true.

Or he simply doesn't know.

[revvy]

Context: in the Massive X thread, Evil Dragon said Massive has loads of monthly users. I asked how he knew. He didn’t reply but chk07 said it states/implies so in Massive menu and you can turn it off. ED said nothing, so he’s either blocking me or it’s true.

Or he simply doesn't know.

He said he knew the figures and zerocrossing didn’t.

[chk071]

Ok.

Well, I'd surely be interested in those figures.

[revvy]

So some companies track how often you use their software.

Which companies?

Well according to the thread where you pointed out that NI do it , there’s NI, erm…dunno, that was the idea behind the thread.

At least it's the only company which I ever had plugins from which had that option in the preferences. I don't know how many others (if any) do it.

Personally, I don't have an issue with it, same with usage metrics. Actually, the latter is a great thing, because, that does what everyone is always demanding from companies: Listening to the user, i.e. checking which features are used the most.

If they are monitoring me to the level of watching which parts I click on I’ll uninstall all their SW and raise a bit of a stink.

[chk071]

For the NI plugins, it's optional.