I'm glad to know that a more invasive version won't be happening.
I'm also grateful to you for starting this discussion. I think it is very important to know what we're in for. I also hope that DW will make it very clear to everyone signing up that paid users will have Google Analytics, and that links in locked posts could become visible to those who use the tool.
I'm on the fence about the benefits of Google Analytics, in my case. I do make creative content, and I love an audience, being a performer in RL, but I also block my inclusion in search engines at LJ, and take almost as many steps as possible to minimize the appearance of my fan-works to a wider audience. (I don't lock my stories.) I harbor no illusion that I'm invisible, but I'm not as visible as many, despite having a not-tiny flist and a fair bit of work out there. I suppose that Google Analytics may do more good than harm, but it does raise concerns both on the social front, and about how easy it might make it for makers of fan-fiction and fan-art to get targeted by deep-pocketed entities.
Again, though, I'm just worrying out loud. I'd rather do that and prove an idiot than keep it to myself and come to more serious grief. ;)
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Date: 2009-04-21 12:15 am (UTC)I'm also grateful to you for starting this discussion. I think it is very important to know what we're in for. I also hope that DW will make it very clear to everyone signing up that paid users will have Google Analytics, and that links in locked posts could become visible to those who use the tool.
I'm on the fence about the benefits of Google Analytics, in my case. I do make creative content, and I love an audience, being a performer in RL, but I also block my inclusion in search engines at LJ, and take almost as many steps as possible to minimize the appearance of my fan-works to a wider audience. (I don't lock my stories.) I harbor no illusion that I'm invisible, but I'm not as visible as many, despite having a not-tiny flist and a fair bit of work out there. I suppose that Google Analytics may do more good than harm, but it does raise concerns both on the social front, and about how easy it might make it for makers of fan-fiction and fan-art to get targeted by deep-pocketed entities.
Again, though, I'm just worrying out loud. I'd rather do that and prove an idiot than keep it to myself and come to more serious grief. ;)
Catherine