On 2021, മാർച്ച് 12 11:24:06 AM IST, Ravi Dwivedi ravi@anche.no wrote:
I am looking for a free software substitute for Google forms. I would
really appreciate if you can suggest something on urgent basis.
https://www.kobotoolbox.org/ is a free software alternative for Google Forms. I cannot recommend you to use that because it installs Google Analytics cookies in the visitor's browser. In other words, the central server https://www.kobotoolbox.org/ front end is nonfree software because it contains Google Analytics cookies which is nonfree.
You are mixing up issues here. I don't think cookies are non-free. They are not essential for the functionality of the form as you already explained. You can block them easily.
And it is Free Software, so anyone is free to host an instance without google analytics.
I don't think it is a good idea to lose nuances and give same priority to all the problems in the world.
I'd consider moving to kobotoolbox an improvement in software freedom.
Free Software is not about free of cost services.
If you would like to use this alternative, please request the visitors to use Privacy Badger plugin which will block the Google Analytics cookies. uBlock origin also blocks the GA.
My suggestion is that they can send students the questions or entries that they would like to collect using Google Forms from the students in the mail.
I don't think this is a scalable approach. We don't want to completely reject the benefits of software because one of the services uses google analytics cookies.
Like, in the mail itself create a form such as:
Fill the following details:
Name: Date of Birth:
etc.
I wish to turn down 2 requests in which students are being forced to fill their information in Google forms.
In my opinion, the requests should be turn down. No one should be forced to fill Google Forms for education.