gpokr and xsketch, I'd assume.

yeah that does seem logical (and also totally benign). can anyone confirm that?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/deadcode-tools-for-kdice/lgncbldojojfelnpbdkmgnpnmnenkpab/details

it's actually:
kdice.com, www.kdice.com, www.warsocial.com, and www.nov8trix.com
I don't know what that last one is :3

the last one is the firm dc works for

Since some of the code for the tool is located on deadcodes server you need to allow access to it. It annoys me a little, but nothing about DC tools has ever seemed nefarious so I tend not to stress about it.

I dunno... several months ago dc tools started spamming the forum with Ron Paul.

lol @ monte :p

piers, yes chloe is correct. The script communicates with 3 websites; kdice being the obvious one. nov8 being a server that tracks analytics/usage (a firm I started). And WarSocial.com which was the addition with this latest release.

WarSocial.com communication is for updating the "# online" indicator within the application.

This new feature allows you to see how many people are currently playing on WarSocial.

WarSocial is a game I'm building that I decided to make public so others can enjoy it and give feedback while I'm working on it.

Also planned is an indicator to show you when you currently have a multi-day game where it is your turn to move.

BTW, Deadcode Tools is open source; so check out the source code here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/102923

Enjoy!

While I am not sure I like your company to track my usage - I have the chance to not use your tools any time and as you said, you communicate the use free and openly. So nothing too wrong there.

However, using Firefox 15.0.1, Mozilla Firefox EU, euballot - 1.1

- there is no number of players for warsocial
- there is no flag in game

Nevertheless, thanks for your good work.

To be fair; all websites track usage; including Kdice.

If you view source on the kdice page you will find the following code:

<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js"; type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-765974-2");
pageTracker._trackPageview();
</script>

This is a google analytics tracking code. This allows google analytics to track all usage of the website and display a ton of graphs etc about the sites usage.

I would say that 90% of all websites have tracking like this.

Deadcode Tools is not an exception. It tracks usage of all the features.

For example; there have been 341,759 turns ended by Deadcode Tools since the creation of the tool.

Also usage for Deadcode Tools has been increasing each month since it's creation.

These types of analytics are important for evaluating the success or failure of features.

As always you can opt out of being tracked in this way by avoiding kdice, deadcode tools, google.com, and pretty much any website in our modern era.

Btw; I'll check out the issues you are having with the flags/etc.