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Your browser history _is_ a personal profile of your browsing preferences. What's the difference?

• lucideer 8y ago
  Nobody said it wasn't? What's your point? The only thing that's being debated is whether sending a personal profile of your browsing preferences compiled from metadata is ok simply because it's not a personal profile of your browsing preferences consisting of your entire browsing history. You're right that both things are profiles—that's not being argued.
  • ForHackernews 8y ago
    Please provide evidence that they're "sending a personal profile of your browsing preferences compiled from metadata" anywhere. As far as I can tell, the only data that's sent is what Pocket-recommended links were displayed, and if you clicked on them. Is that what you're claiming constitutes a "profile"?
  • TheRealPomax 8y ago
    Except that metadata isn't getting sent to pocket. Firefox gets the full list of pocket recommendations, and it, locally, picks which to show you, based on your browsing history. The entire thing you object so strongly to, namely things getting sent to mozilla _never happens_ and neither mozilla, nor pocket --nor anyone else except people who hack into your computer or your firefox account if you use such a thing-- will ever know what you're in to, if you turn of the general data sharing that you probably already have turned off for firefox because you're privacy-conscious.