Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] New UUID in Eclipse Platform

[Ed Willink <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

On 04/06/2016 16:11, Doug Schaefer wrote:
> I'm neither for or against this. I do agree the communication was 
> late. It probably would have been better to not tell us at all :).
>
> I do see the need for recognizing individual installs though. Tracking 
> IP address as we've done to date hides a lot of data behind corporate 
> firewalls that present a single address for all their employees.
I'm a single user, but I have a firewall router for my machines. The 
non-static IP moves occasionally. Am I multiple users due to IP 
reallocation? Am I multiple users due to multiple machines? When I 
re-install from download ZIPs, am I fewer users?

You are now destroying your goal since you have lost your credibility. 
In principle I see no harm to me in the gathered data, but I no longer 
trust the EF to do the right thing. I'll be uuid=0 henceforth.

NB. The uuid=0 is not an opt-out since the opt-out cannot easily be made 
till after an opt-in has been in place for minutes if not days. (I 
cannot edit a file to be uuid=0 until Eclipse startup has created the 
file and no doubt done an initial communication with some server.)

    Regards

        Ed Willink