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Out of curiosity, why did you choose to set up analytics as opt-out? What do you even need them for?

I built this as an exercise in product management - even though it is just a little extension, I want to run it as if it were a revenue-generating product so that I can gain experience in that area.

Part of that is looking at usage data to identify what parts are working, what needs improvement, retention statistics, etc. I made them opt-out because I would be pissed if someone made a cool thing that I wanted to use but insisted on tracking me with it :)

I think you misunderstood my question. Why "opt out" instead of "opt in"? Or better still, "ask the user at first run"?

Because DNT was the quickest solution. I'm actually rewriting that part over the next couple of days to be opt in instead (via a popup the first time the sidebar is opened, I think).

One problem is the risk of self-selection bias.

Having given it more thought, and in response to some of the concerns raised in this thread, I removed analytics entirely.

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