[casual_games] Casual Games audience hardware survey ?

[Hal Barwood]

The question isn't whether what sounds to me like a benign way to get 
some good user info is *intrusive*, but whether doing so will prove to 
be a *barrier* to sales.  My guess is, yes, it will be.  --Hal

Jonas Beckeman wrote:
>> When I surf the 
>> web, I accept that some amount of information is going to be 
>> tracked because I am using their server when I visit their 
>> site, but when using an application on my machine, I find it 
>> objectionable.
> 
> OK, to avoid confusion:
> "Using a small shockwave piece connected to a webstats counter, placed on
> many sites with different audiences, you can get RAM size and gfx card."
> I'm not talking about downloadables.
> The question is if this info retrieved from a site, and decoupled from IP,
> is intrusive.
>