Why does Unity Analytics not provide a user opt-out?

"Analytics opt-out: Unity Analytics does not currently offer an opt-out to Users of Developer apps. If you do not want your information collected by Unity Analytics, you may have to stop using the game or application utilizing Unity Analytics."
https://unity3d.com/legal/privacy-policy

Why not?

I can't find any other mention of this apart from here:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/solved-unity-iap-without-analytics.383272/

"The FTC allows for certain allowances if you are using a third-party service to support the internal operations of your game."

How about with GDPR coming in, any changes from the way users can request not to be tracked there?

Whilst that may be true, as ethical and caring developers might want to give information to users on how to opt-out. For example is you use Mixpanel, you can direct users to this form, which I guess then just stores their device details to not track :

https://mixpanel.com/optout/

Hardly anyone would use it, but at least they have the option to.

As another thought, would it be possible to manually start the Analytics service via sdk? Its automatic at the moment, just thinking if the developer can initialise it, then it could have its own "send usage stats" option in game, and not start the analytics if the users opts out.

Be good to hear your thoughts,

Thanks

 

I would also appreciate if Unity provided an end-user opt out for Unity Analytics. At this point we are considering removing it completely (in spite of its usefulness) due to stay compliant with the upcoming GDPR.

Unity has put out a statement on GDPR which makes no mention of Unity Analytics: https://unity3d.com/legal/gdpr
The statement itself doesn't even seem to be aimed at developers.

My current conclusion is that using Unity Analytics will not be compliant with the GDPR. I hope Unity indicates otherwise.

 

See here for a better thread on this
https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-analytics-and-gdpr.513112/

 

Thanks, yeah I saw that thread before landing here (good the research on the other analytics btw). As far as I can tell there is no specific statement from Unity on Unity Analytics.

 

Yep, only 37 days until GDPR.

If developers need to change anything, either in games, privacy policies etc, then they need to get a move on

 

You can disable it at runtime

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Analytics.Analytics-enabled.html

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Analytics.Analytics-deviceStatsEnabled.html

 

I assume deviceStatsEnabled is the same as HW Statistics in Player Settings and thus cannot be disabled if you‘re running Unity Personal Edition.

 

Analytics.enabled=false stops tracking of events indeed.

deviceStats can be disabled by software says the manual - has to be enabled by the project before of course.