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Mozilla currently uses Google Analytics for tracking, with "IP Anonymization" enabled. Which, according to Google’s FAQ, https://support.google.com/analytics/a
by kuschku 9y ago
Mozilla currently uses Google Analytics for tracking, with "IP Anonymization" enabled.
Which, according to Google’s FAQ, https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en, just blanks out the last byte of the IP.
Which is useless, because it still includes enough personalized data as to be completely and utterly reversible.
- flyinghamster 9y agoNot to mention, if we're talking about IPv6 addresses, they often get allocated as /64 (or even /60 or /56) blocks. Such "anonymization" becomes useless at that point.
- veeti 9y agoGoogle Analytics has nothing to do with this. As clearly linked in the mailing list, you can read the paper and source code for the client-side differential privacy tech used.
- kuschku 9y agoThen check out https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785 https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785