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Setting an "ignore threshold"?
Might it be useful to be able to set an "ignore threshold" of sorts for apps or sites that are used under a certain amount of time? For instance, webpages that are open for 15 seconds or less (or some other user-definable number) are not logged. This might be useful to cut down on the massive amount of websites that I've visited for less than a few seconds but end up adding up to several hours in the 'undefined' category. Most sites I've visited for that little of time are popups or something, or very likely sites I'll never go to again, and thus don't want to take the time to properly tag.
Does this make sense? This may already be implemented, but I can't seem to find it.
Does this make sense? This may already be implemented, but I can't seem to find it.
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Those are great points, Guy.
Note that a whitelist is an OPTION-- not a requirement. It'll be in the data collector under a new tab called "privacy".
I think the "blacklist" is also an interesting option-- but I generally am able to pull that off with tags. I put all of my junk sites (YouTube, Facebook) under the "personal" and "waste" tag so I can have it nicely bundled up and out of the way.
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It DOES make sense. There's a lot of noise.
I'm hesitant about the "ignore" concept though-- given that all of these 15 second visits add up to a ton of time for some people (especially me). If we didn't log the time, then people's total time data would be off.
So, we need to record the time-- but we don't need to record the names or treat them as unique entities.
We're rolling out a really cool feature called a Whitelist in a few days. What it will allow you to do is to keep a list of your often-visited sites on your machine. Any site that is NOT on that list will be sent as "other web browsing" and all lumped together.
I've been testing this feature for the last few weeks and I'm really liking it. I just went into my app/site list for "forever" and pulled all of the web sites on the list there for the first few pages.
Do you think that'd do the trick?
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Inappropriate?It DOES make sense. There's a lot of noise.
I'm hesitant about the "ignore" concept though-- given that all of these 15 second visits add up to a ton of time for some people (especially me). If we didn't log the time, then people's total time data would be off.
So, we need to record the time-- but we don't need to record the names or treat them as unique entities.
We're rolling out a really cool feature called a Whitelist in a few days. What it will allow you to do is to keep a list of your often-visited sites on your machine. Any site that is NOT on that list will be sent as "other web browsing" and all lumped together.
I've been testing this feature for the last few weeks and I'm really liking it. I just went into my app/site list for "forever" and pulled all of the web sites on the list there for the first few pages.
Do you think that'd do the trick?
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Inappropriate?Hey Tony, that would definitely do the trick. In fact, the whitelist makes much more sense than my idea, for the reasons you listed. Indeed, my 5 minutes here and 3 seconds there do add up to hours of internet usage, and catchall "other web browsing" would be more useful overall than simply ignoring them. Great idea.
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Inappropriate?I like this idea but I wonder if it shoudl run sort of in reverse. i visit 50-100 websites per day and most is for legitimate research. For example, I do media tracking in 3 subject areas. This literally takes me to dozens of news-type sites every day. While I tend to ignore those - a few seconds to a minute each, there are some that i revisit regularly like cnn, consumerist, canada.com, cbc.ca, etc. Periodically, I look at my UNTAGGED for the month and add those news sites where I spent a material amount of time.
If I understood correctly, now I would have to whitelist them also to have them recorded and tagged to NEWS activity.
On the other hand if the whitelist becomes a list of where I do NOT want to be tracked, I can just enter snapfish, facebook, youtube and consider everything else trackable - then I still wind up with dozens of untagged but recodrded items of 20 seocnds that still do not lump together.
If I visit a website for 30 seconds every day it becomes significant in the monthly total.
There is no easy answer but here is a middle of the road idea
place any website less than a minute into a GENERAL WEB, unless it has a tag. Periodically, we can go through the GENERAL WEB list (maybe available from the APP-SITE list) and tag those that shoudl be recorded.
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Inappropriate?Those are great points, Guy.
Note that a whitelist is an OPTION-- not a requirement. It'll be in the data collector under a new tab called "privacy".
I think the "blacklist" is also an interesting option-- but I generally am able to pull that off with tags. I put all of my junk sites (YouTube, Facebook) under the "personal" and "waste" tag so I can have it nicely bundled up and out of the way.
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Inappropriate?Maybe we can set a tag threshold then. For me, I would prefer if all apps and websites that have < 5 minutes cumulative time (over a week) would get thrown into the "other web browsing" tag. Obviously you would need to let people define their own threshold.
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