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Mozilla has a special agreement with Google for this that anonimizes the data.
by JohnTHaller 8y ago
Mozilla has a special agreement with Google for this that anonimizes the data.
- TekMol 8y agoI'm sure every tracking company out there says they do only good with the data they track. If that is what it takes to make tracking ok, then why bother at all?
- jonathanyc 8y agoWhat? Did you even read the parent comment? It’s a legal contract.
- natch 8y agoContracts that purport to protect user privacy are often rife with weasel words. So I wouldn’t assume anything.
- jonathanyc 8y agoAh yes, it’s so easy to prove a conspiracy to yourself if you just assume one to begin with.
- natch 8y agoNo I’m not assuming either way. But we know the incentives are there for tracking to be effective as opposed to ineffective. I’d argue it’s more rational to take the landscape as it is, rather than how we wish it to be.
- DoctorOetker 8y agowhat does this mean? why is google interested in our about page behaviour? the only motive I can imagine is to understand what fraction of users they are missing and why? why should we tolerate handing out such strategic data?
- natch 8y agoFor certain values of “anonymizes.” /snark
- c3534l 8y agoYou cannot anonymize data and we've known this since the Netflix data was famously deanonymized. "Anonymized data" is what people call it when they're lying or don't know enough to be trusted with privacy. The primary issue is that data that seems harmless in isolation can be powerful in aggregate, that any data unique enough to be informative to a third party can be used to triangulate an individual's identity, and that data which cannot be matched up with a user today might be in the future when more information is available or statistical tools are improved. If Firefox actually does say they "anonymize" your data, that's a pretty damning indictment on their lack of trustworthiness and diligence.