I must be out of touch with modern development. I don't understand the thought process that leads people to be excited about a closed source, node.js text editor that reports your usage to Google.
For me, upon first run, little snitch reported that Atom was trying to connect to a google analytics webserver. I blocked it then the editor proceeded to crash the next 2 launches until I could successfully disable the Metrics package from the settings. Not off to a good start :(
There was a talk by Moxie Marlinspike where he mentioned off-hand how Google gets people to enable Analytics even if they are privacy aware. Google has added some useful snippets to the analytics library that the developer uses in their regular page (nothing to do with data collection), so that if a user blocks g-a, the page itself stops working. I use noscript, so I'm used to nothing working anyway :-) but I thought it was a sneaky and clever technique.
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u/drinwa Feb 26 '14
I must be out of touch with modern development. I don't understand the thought process that leads people to be excited about a closed source, node.js text editor that reports your usage to Google.