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Eh, they snuck in a hidden extension to specifically send telemetry for people who don't want to send telemetry, and expressed publicly that that was the intent
by gergles 8y ago
Eh, they snuck in a hidden extension to specifically send telemetry for people who don't want to send telemetry, and expressed publicly that that was the intent behind the extension.
I'm not really assuming much malice there. I am assuming malice in how they'll use the data, but given their past track record of removing features based on telemetry data, I don't think I'm making too big a leap.
- sjwright 8y agoBut if they embedded the feature into the core rather than into an extension, that would have been okay? Seriously, you're complaining about an implementation detail.
- bigbugbag 8y agoYou mistaken, the issue is not about extension or core, the issue is that they specifically added code to track and monitor people who expressedly choose not to be tracked or monitored by mozilla. telemetry used to be opt in, it's been changed to opt out. And now those who have opted out have their own special telemetry that cannot be disabled.
- sjwright 8y agoUnless you never use your web browser to visit any website ever, I just don't see what the issue is here. The information they're gathering is outrageously trivial and thoroughly anonymised. This whole discussion shows an absurd lack of perspective by some people, particularly in the light of what Chrome does... or what Android does... or what LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE TCP CONNECTION TO LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE ON THE INTERNET does...
- rhelmer 8y agoThe intent was to express publicly, and then send an update that reflected this. Would it feel less "[sneaked] in" if this were a core feature in Firefox?