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To me this reads more as an excuse for even more user tracking. Seems to be the new thing at Mozilla :(

• arkades 9y ago
  Read the same to me. Seems that if they were actually concerned for conserving user privacy, their "compromise" should have been approach #1, with more intrusive user tracking a fallback position iff the original "compromise" solution didn't work. That they didn't even seem to trial a privacy-conserving measure first speaks volumes.
  • bzbarsky 9y ago
    I can only point you to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15484417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15484417 and suggest that you go read the actual discussion and understand the context. "They" were very much concerned about user privacy, if "they" is Mozilla as a whole. Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla, I saw this thread; I did not reply to it because other people got there first and I would just be repeating what they said, but had they not replied I most certainly would have.
    • arkades 9y ago
      That casts a very different light on the situation. Thank you for providing the additional context.