Stop spying us Johny! jk :P

I'm curious... will it spot and report any errors on the page or just ones it's been asked to watch for?

For example if my script (or BE) causes an error will it get sent to you guys?
Because that would be really helpful for debugging for me XD

Ah.
You might get a few of mine then, but not many. Usually I just call $apply or $evalAsync when I have already made changes to scope variable elsewhere.
I think there is the odd case where I have some code inside the call but not the bits likely to cause errors :)

There is nothing wrong with being careful and blocking various scripts etc. as a matter of course if you don't know what they do or why they are there (and if blocking them does not effect your use of a website you should probably go right ahead), though I personally can't be bothered and don't care.

But in this specific case it can be (and has been) shown the script is not sending any personal data (yes they get your IP address and probably country of origin, but neither of those are really all that helpful) from Gog to Cloudfront. On top of that, I very much doubt that Amazon's terms of service for Cloudfront allow them to access and use the data from people who use their services (though I could be wrong, particularly if there is a free option as someone previously mentioned) so it's not Cloudfront who would have this data, it's Opbeat.

Are they going to sell that data (IP and country) on? Possibly, though I doubt it. What use is it to anyone?
They will probably be getting thousands, if not millions, of accesses to that script every day so to identify any one single user from that will be exceedingly difficult.

I have no particular issue with the general concept of what you're saying, just that it's not actually applicable to these specific circumstances. The script isn't sending personal data, it's not being used for data mining. It's being used to improve the website, for our benefit as end users.

All the big data-miners are interested in one thing - getting as detailed profile of a specific user as possible. All in the name of "targeted advertisement," though it can end up being used for other things, too. Every single additional data point has the potential of making such record all the more accurate.

All the large names are constantly advertising open positions for statisticians and behavioral scientists. They are not just interested in "what you did," but are actively trying to work with the data available to determine "what you will do."

I hardly consider that a good thing, given the implications for the future (there is already a strong push for introduction of "pre-crime" punishment in the U.S.).

"Population control" is not a good thing, and whether the corps mean it or not they are working hard on making it possible.

So there is no chance of cloudfront script use being rolled back for now?

If nothing else, it will let them know for certain somebody is very much interested in P.C. games. Depending on how the specific sub-page invokes the script, it probably even provides them with clear data on what specific title you are interested in at the moment.

I looked at Amazon's policies. Their AWS privacy policy only protects the "content" (i.e. whatever scripts you are hosting with them), but not the data coming in or going out. The "Amazon.com" policy is, basically, "All UR data R belong to us."

That's why all these companies are heavily investing into huge data warehouses and analytics development. And you can very easily identify a single user - in the core market (western countries) IPs are mostly static. For those who access the internet on a dynamic IP, you can easily narrow that down by looking up their IP provider (who are registered with specific IP ranges), and use software/hardware fingerprinting to determine if it's the same machine.

Computers make working with this kind of amount of traffic so easy...

Credit where it's due - you actually completely surprised me with how fast this was taken care of. I was expecting a month at the least, if not "indefinitely working on it."

No Amazon anymore, Google is block-able, all is well :)

Thank you.