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I mean, you linked a press release from 2012 for a partnership with Everything.me, and an Indian Mozilla video from 2014 about adaptive search which doesn't men
by mikegioia 11y ago
I mean, you linked a press release from 2012 for a partnership with Everything.me, and an Indian Mozilla video from 2014 about adaptive search which doesn't mention anything about that. I'm not saying FF is innocent in data-sharing, but at this point you're spreading FUD around. To make a claim like that, you need something way more definitive!
- ptx 11y agoThe misfeature demonstrated (adaptive app search) is implemented by sending the query to the company mentioned. It's not a secret. See this article for example: http://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-revamping-firefox-oss-app-launcher/ http://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-revamping-firefox-oss-app-l... Edit: You're right that it's not mentioned in the video. That's part of the problem; it's obviously something people care about and would like to be informed of. Here is one bug report discussing it - and a "fix" involving stopping the queries in some very specific cases: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1082787 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1082787 Or how about this direct quote[1] from Mozilla's CTO (where in "e.me" refers to Everything.Me in context): "So we send an XHR request for each letter to Google on Desktop (search box), and XHR requests to e.me on Firefox OS." [1] https://lists.mozilla.org/pipermail/dev-platform/2014-October/007368.html https://lists.mozilla.org/pipermail/dev-platform/2014-Octobe...