[dljejyvx] Measuring document popularity in Freenet

Creators of content want to measure what their readers read (etc.), perhaps for the purely benevolent purpose of creating more of what people like.  Web cookies are the most common technique.  However, this leads to a giant privacy mess.

Ironically and surprisingly, one of the most privacy-protecting content distribution technologies, Freenet, permits measuring the popularity of a document.  It becomes cached by the network, so popularity can be measured by time it takes to fetch it.

The system could be gamed if there is enough incentive, for example if it were used as a public compensation (award) for creating popular content under weak copyright.