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It's worth knowing that Mozilla negotiated an opt-out with Google around the re-use of this (and other) Google Analytics data https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show
by EwanToo 9y ago
It's worth knowing that Mozilla negotiated an opt-out with Google around the re-use of this (and other) Google Analytics data
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697436#c14 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697436#c14
- kuschku 9y agoYet, they don’t even ask the user if the data should be sent to Google Analytics. Not even a cookie notice.
- gcp 9y agoAFAIK almost no US based website does this, even if they are using GA. As a European this is annoying, but one has to ask itself the question if Mozilla should willfully disadvantage itself here.
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y agoDoes Mozilla not have a presence in the EU?
- gcp 9y agoIt has some subsidiaries, AFAIK. I don't know how the legals work there. I was going to say Google does the same, but an actual clean profile shows that Google.com shows a banner "A privacy reminder from Google" on first use.
- bsilvereagle 9y agoI'm not sure why you're being downvoted (unless Mozilla does indeed provide this information). All sites using Google Analytics are supposed to inform the user according to Section 7 of the GA ToS: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html Just because "no one else does it" and Google turning a blind eye towards violators doesn't mean they're not violating the ToS.
- nucleardog 9y agoIf they negotiated a special contract regarding what data is collected, and where and how it's stored and used by Google... What exactly makes you think that ToS has any relevance to the relationship between Mozilla and Google?
- nerdponx 9y agoI'm not sure I understand the "opt-out" they negotiated with Google. Is this a user-level opt-out? Or did Mozilla convince Google to silo the Mozilla data?
- gcp 9y agoFrom the linked bug, it sounds like the data is silo-ed and no user opt-out is needed.