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Do they include also the google analytics that are built into firefox addons page?
by MikusR 7y ago
Do they include also the google analytics that are built into firefox addons page?
- PavlovsCat 7y agoCan you elaborate what page you mean? I see nothing in the source of https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=blah https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=blah or about:addons
- robbya 7y agoI believe they are talking about an outdated issue: https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785#issuecomment-315212909 https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785#issue...
- brynjolf 7y agoIt is not outdated since it requires you to enable Do not track which makes you a target for tracking. It is bad design and they know it. They don't even respect their own disable analytics toggle.
- vunie 7y agoNot only that, but Mozilla deliberately continues to send telemetry about your network, browser, and OS even when you explicitly disable telemetry: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/09/21/mozilla-wants-to-estimate-firefoxs-telemetry-off-population/ https://www.ghacks.net/2018/09/21/mozilla-wants-to-estimate-... When Microsoft is more honest and upfront about user privacy then you are, then you have a problem.
- akerro 7y agoNo, these cannot be skipped without external request blocking, like on DNS level. Even µblock won't block GA built-in in Firefox.
- purple_ducks 7y agouMatrix defaults to blocking GA and indeed blocks the request for analytics.js on that page.
- catalogia 7y agoReally? I thought no extensions are permitted to run on that page.
- purple_ducks 7y agoi now realise you/parent were talking about the about:addons page, not the https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ web page.