Re: [Ietf108planning] [irsg] Preview of survey on virtual meetings

> On 24/04/2020, at 9:16 PM, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hiya,
> 
> All good otherwise, but just one follow-up:
> 
> On 24/04/2020 04:26, Jay Daley wrote:
>>> PS: Longer term, it'd be nice if we had a less privacy invasive
>>> service to use than survey monkey. In this case I can't see
>>> comments from others without creating an account (which I don't
>>> wanna do), and there's really no need for user-tracking for our
>>> surveys.
>> The surveys are run with all user tracking turned off but I take your
>> point about comments - others have made the same point.
> IIRC, when the survey goes live, ads are displayed, JS
> is required and other web tracking galore happens, to
> the point where I can't use my default browser setup to
> take the survey. That's not a major deal, and happens
> sadly often, but there's no reason why we need to use
> an ad-driven survey service if a more privacy friendly
> one exists.
> 
> I don't do surveys so not sure if there is such. But I
> do run polls and always use dudle [1] rather than the
> better known ad-driven alternative. Most people seem
> to not know or care, a few like that, and I've only
> ever had one person bemoan a missing feature from the
> commercial service (google calendar integration). So
> be worth someone checking if there's a good alternative
> to survey monkey IMO (non-urgently).

I don’t know about the free tier of Surveymonkey, but there are no ads on the paid tiers and we are on a paid tier.

I’ve always found Surveymonkey quite clumsy and so at some point I do want to look for an alternative.

Jay

> 
> Cheers,
> S.
> 
> [1] https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/better-than-survey-monkey/
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