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IMHO this should be blocked by Tracking Protection.

• ianbicking 9y ago
  The general policy at Mozilla – which I'm pretty sure addons.mozilla.org follows (given https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/blob/28410742c206e53e568bdff557d416d970c0f1d0/src/core/tracking.js#L29 https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/blob/28410742c206...) is that we don't use Google Analytics on websites if you have Do Not Track on. It's a little less clear here because we're embedding a website into an interface that appears to be part of the browser, which is why there was a suggestion by a maintainer in the first response that we should use both Do Not Track and a Firefox data collection flag. But the Do Not Track preference is just as well-exposed as other flags, so I doubt that would have an effect on many users who would object to this tracking (who are very likely to have turned on Do Not Track).
  • kuschku 9y ago
    The discovery.addons.mozilla.org page does not respect Do Not Track, but as a result of the thread, someone just made a PR to implement that feature: https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/pull/2787 https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/pull/2787 Currently, no matter what privacy settings you set, you are being tracked, without being informed about it, without opt-out. This is likely even illegal in the EU.
    • MaxLeiter 9y ago
      The pull request was closed without merging https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/pull/2787#issuecomment-314872289 https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/pull/2787#issueco...
      • kuschku 9y ago
        That facepalm hurt. Honestly, what the fuck are they even trying to do? This has to be the most mis-managed situation I’ve seen yet.