Posted June 01, 2016
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Hi. For clarity and transparency I'll try to put this into simple words:
1. Amazon's CloudFront is just storing scripts, we could embed them ourselves and we will. (we have a small technical thing to overcome before we do this in a proper way) So yay for script blocking users. :P
[edit: there is no CloudFront hosted script right now]
2. We don't send anything to Amazon. The script hosted there (by opbeat itself) is angular-opbeat and it's used by us to collect erros in JavaScript on the user side, alert us etc. - it's created also to be helpful in debugging performance issues on users side. The data is sent to opbeat servers. So the aim in including the opbeat (or other services in future) is:
- Instantly know about site crashes on your side, even if you're in a small group of users or have the issue individually
- Make our website faster for you
3. You can block google analytics and opbeat on your side, we're prepared for that and we respect it - and you'll be able to use our website without this particular amazon-hosted script soon (can't say when, I'm sorry).
[edit: it's done]
You can read the discussion starting from this post (a few pages of related and unrelated posts):
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_what_did_just_break_thread/page75#p_b_1504
1. Amazon's CloudFront is just storing scripts, we could embed them ourselves and we will. (we have a small technical thing to overcome before we do this in a proper way) So yay for script blocking users. :P
[edit: there is no CloudFront hosted script right now]
2. We don't send anything to Amazon. The script hosted there (by opbeat itself) is angular-opbeat and it's used by us to collect erros in JavaScript on the user side, alert us etc. - it's created also to be helpful in debugging performance issues on users side. The data is sent to opbeat servers. So the aim in including the opbeat (or other services in future) is:
- Instantly know about site crashes on your side, even if you're in a small group of users or have the issue individually
- Make our website faster for you
3. You can block google analytics and opbeat on your side, we're prepared for that and we respect it - and you'll be able to use our website without this particular amazon-hosted script soon (can't say when, I'm sorry).
[edit: it's done]
You can read the discussion starting from this post (a few pages of related and unrelated posts):
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_what_did_just_break_thread/page75#p_b_1504
Post edited June 06, 2016 by Johny.