Re: [lp-ca-on] LibreJS in Parliament

[Matt Lee]

The video on the main page shouldn't require Flash, and we've not
changed anything there. It may require you to accept a small piece of
JavaScript from Vimeo, however.

You should block Google Analytics completely using Privacy Badger or
the like. I do.

>From CC's privacy policy:

"We do not intentionally link browsing information or information from
our OpenID or CCID server logs to the personal information you submit
to us. We use this information for internal purposes only, such as to
help understand how the Services are being used, to improve our
Services, and for systems administration purposes. CC may use a third
party analytics provider to help us collect and analyze non personal
browsing information through operation of our Services for those same
purposes."
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Matt Lee
Creative Commons
Austin, TX, USA
3pm-11pm UTC


On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Greg Wright <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> On 04/13/2016 06:39 PM, Matt Lee wrote:
>>
>> Hey Greg,
>>
>> I'm on the list, but I also happen to be the Technical Lead at CC.
>>
>> All of our JavaScript is weblabelled here:
>>
>> https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/themes/creativecommons.org/weblabels.html
>> (linked from our About menu)
>>
>> I'd be curious to know where you found any Flash on our website.
>>
>> Piwik is being used in some parts of our site but if you have an issue
>> with Google Analytics, you ought to be blocking it, and our site will
>> work without it. We may eventually move entirely to Piwik, but any
>> objection to Google Analytics really ought to apply to Piwik too.
>>
> the video on the main page was asking for flash, I see that has changed now.
>
> The Objection to Google Analaytics is that I do not and should not have
> trust a third party such as Google with my information. Piwik does not have
> this issue, most of the time (I believe there are Piwik hosters available).