Remove Google Analytics (GA) and any other info-gathering from the site

[seandunn]

Hi All,

Yeoman currently gathers anonymous information to help improve the
project which, IMHO, is a good thing.

At the current time however there's no clear statement of what's collected, who
it's shared with or how to control this information gathering once the
initial generator has been run.

This is just a suggestion but it would be nice to make things a bit
clearer by adding a project privacy statement.

As a starter, I think that any project privacy statement should include:

• What information will be collected?
• How will your information be used?
• How will your information be stored?
• What security measures will protect your information?
• How long will your information be kept?
• Will your information be shared with others?
• How can you contact the yeoman project team?

Additionally there should be a clear way to turn off information
gathering off and how to turn it on latter.

Any thoughts?

Cheers,
Sean.

[addyosmani]

I think we should aim to get a privacy statement in place for the next release. Thanks for bringing this to our attention!

[sindresorhus]

@seandunn thanks for writing this up. What you've noted looks ok to me.

[eddiemonge]

Im curious to what we are actually collecting as well.

[hemanth]

We are collecting the analytics stats is in't ?

Like:

[eddiemonge]

well there was insight. i dont know if thats still running or reporting anywhere if it is

[eddiemonge]

Should we still do this or does anyone care?

[SBoudrias]

We still have insight code tracking some stuff, but I don't know if anyone ever looked at the GA board... I know I didn't... @addyosmani ?

[eddiemonge]

Is that still running? Who has access to it other than maybe Addy?

[addyosmani]

I don't think I still have access. Let me check.

[addyosmani]

I still have access on GA and can add any team members that are interested. Here's the type of data being collected (last 4 days):

This gives us insight into:

• Countries where Yeoman is being used the most
• What scaffolding commands are being called (e.g the JHipster generator is still pretty popular)
• What are't people using (in case we want to deprecate particular paths at some point)

The graphic doesn't go into too much depth, but if someone on the team wanted to dig further into the data there may be some interesting insights into usage trends still available.

[JoshuaKGoldberg]

Moving this over to the website repository, as it will end up being either or both of:

• Changing how the website interacts with user data
• Updating documentation to explain that

Personally I don't think we still need any kind of GA / user analytics at this point.

[UlisesGascon]

Personally I don't think we still need any kind of GA / user analytics at this point.

I am +1 on this, maybe we should remove any analytics from the website? Worse case we can just use Cloudflare as DNS for basic analytics 🤔