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Well, first of all, I wouldn't call it "tracking". They're going to be aggregating the data and specifically promise to not create profiles on individual users.

Well, first of all, I wouldn't call it "tracking". They're going to be aggregating the data and specifically promise to not create profiles on individual users. Secondly, I wouldn't necessarily call it "third-party" either, since Mozilla owns parts of the Cliqz GmbH, so will at least know what's going on inside the company and can easily pull the plug, if Cliqz should actually start to store user data. Generally speaking, though, Cliqz is a content recommendation engine, trying to compete with web search engines, so sort of hoping to take a bit of world domination (and money) out of Google's hands. The actual recommendations will be generated locally without sending data to Cliqz, but they do need a data set that tells them what users are usually looking for based on the browsing history that they have.

mthoms 9y ago
>The actual recommendations will be generated locally without sending data to Cliqz If this is true, that's great news. They should mention it in the post IMHO.
- floatingatoll 9y ago
  I suspect it would make little difference. Either users are okay with server-side data collection (with differential privacy etc), or they are hostile to all data collection full stop. The in-between nuance of “results generated locally” does nothing to salve the anguish of this post’s comments. I wish it would.
Vinnl 9y ago
> They're going to be aggregating the data and specifically promise to not create profiles on individual users. A promise isn't good enough. They say so themselves either, which is why they've described here how they try to prevent themselves from even being able to create profiles, so you don't have to trust them: https://gist.github.com/solso/423a1104a9e3c1e3b8d7c9ca14e885e5 https://gist.github.com/solso/423a1104a9e3c1e3b8d7c9ca14e885... That said, a cursory reading does make it seem like they wouldn't be completely unable too, but I haven't dived into it too extensively yet.

mthoms 9y ago

>The actual recommendations will be generated locally without sending data to Cliqz If this is true, that's great news. They should mention it in the post IMHO.

floatingatoll 9y ago
I suspect it would make little difference. Either users are okay with server-side data collection (with differential privacy etc), or they are hostile to all data collection full stop. The in-between nuance of “results generated locally” does nothing to salve the anguish of this post’s comments. I wish it would.

Vinnl 9y ago

> They're going to be aggregating the data and specifically promise to not create profiles on individual users. A promise isn't good enough. They say so themselves either, which is why they've described here how they try to prevent themselves from even being able to create profiles, so you don't have to trust them: https://gist.github.com/solso/423a1104a9e3c1e3b8d7c9ca14e885e5 https://gist.github.com/solso/423a1104a9e3c1e3b8d7c9ca14e885... That said, a cursory reading does make it seem like they wouldn't be completely unable too, but I haven't dived into it too extensively yet.