Ask HN: Is it ethical for open-source projects to have usage analytics tracking?

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  • metarank

    A low code Machine Learning personalized ranking service for articles, listings, search results, recommendations that boosts user engagement. A friendly Learn-to-Rank engine

  • We’re building an open-source tool to do search/category/recommendation personalization https://github.com/metarank/metarank, eventually planning to create a business out of it. We have a small number of pilot projects with real feedback, but we rarely have a chance to see how new people interact with the service, as it’s self-hosted backend tool with no UI.

    We have an idea to add anonymous analytics reporting to get a glimpse of real usage (and places where people are struggling to improve), but are concerned if it’s ethical or not to do such intrusive things.

    Is it acceptable for an open-source project to have this type of tracking, considering our materialistic plans to transform it into a business?

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