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Ask HN: What are your thoughts about collecting user statistics?

1•logicallee•2h ago
We[1] take privacy very seriously and we understand that the end game usually ends up being empty words: in the end, companies sell or monetize their user data, or use it for annoying or invasive advertising, regardless of the reason it was collected in the first place.

Although we have a different model (sovereign nation, currently acknowledged by our server provider in Estonia, our embassy lease, and reciprocally with another nation[2]) we are rather skeptical about collecting user statistics of any kind.

Nevertheless, it seems to be necessary for data science purposes. What do you think we should do?

- Your comments directly inform our policy.

- Your silence (such as if this post doesn't get comments) does not denote your consent.

[1] State of Utopia ( stateofutopia.com and will be at stofut.com for short), sovereign AI-governed digital nation acting in the best interests of its citizens and providing expected state services, while also owning some state-owned companies. Check it often for updates.

[2] We have a full manifesto here: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/d6b35b81-0eeb-4e41-9628-5d53fed072f0

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verdverm•29m ago
Look at what Golang did with opt-in and only collecting what they need for real questions they have in a problematic way
logicallee•22m ago
Thank you, I will take a look at that in detail. It does give me pause that Golang is hosted by Google and people here have extremely negative things to say about Google's privacy stance in general. We want to avoid the same result or reputation.

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