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Mozilla seem to be falling into the same trap as the internet in general, albeit a good long while later. Just a little bit of tracking here, how is that harmfu

Mozilla seem to be falling into the same trap as the internet in general, albeit a good long while later. Just a little bit of tracking here, how is that harmful? Just a little bit of tracking there, too. It's really not a problem. Telemetry this browser feature, Google Analytics that addon page. And like the frog in the pan of water, eventually we're all cooked. "Don't be evil" is deprecated, Mozilla Manifesto #4 will be too, soon enough.

actuallyalys 9y ago
Those are both anonymized, though. That doesn't make it okay, necessarily, but that's a pretty clear line, so I don't think this is a frog in boiling water situation. They also willing to have conversations with users about privacy in the open [0] [1], and both telemetry and Google Analytics can be turned off. (The latter is already turned off if you've enabled Do Not Track.) Finally, Mozilla apparently spent a year working on a contract with Google before they even enabled Google Analytics [2], so it wasn't a matter of slapping Google Analytics on a page because they thought one page couldn't possibly hurt. That being said, I'm skeptical of their use of Google Analytics, so I'm not trying to defend that. I do think it's unfair to imply Mozilla is carelessly following the rest of the web, though. [0]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697436 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697436 [1]: https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785 https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785 [2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697436#c14 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697436#c14