> This ship sailed a long time ago You may be right, but I hope not. The fact Mozilla negotiated stricter privacy in their contracts is a step in the right dir

> This ship sailed a long time ago You may be right, but I hope not. The fact Mozilla negotiated stricter privacy in their contracts is a step in the right direction, so this shows some desire to improve. It needn't be the final step. Beyond that, there are other areas where there's been similar change. The Mozilla Stumbler project, for example, is explicitly designed to improve user choice in a privacy-sensitive area dominated by a Google service; a service that was embedded in Safari, Firefox and Opera 12 (Presto) for a long time without users being aware their browser was phoning home to Google. I would hope this GA fiasco could someday be similarly resolved with enough user pressure.