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Needs to be specified that this was an opt-in study that you had to agree to.
by dralley 6y ago
Needs to be specified that this was an opt-in study that you had to agree to.
- godelski 6y agoIs no one in this thread going to read this article? Seriously, it isn't that long. RTFM >> The new experiment got underway between July 16 and August 13, 2019, when Mozilla prompted Firefox users to take part of this experiment. >> Mozilla researchers said that more than 52,000 users agreed to take part and agreed to provide anonymous browsing data.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoClearly not actually anonymous browsing data in actuality though... which is why we should always take claims that telemetry data is anonymized with a grain of salt.
- tonyhb 6y agoAnonymous as in the only thing they're getting is a random identifier and browsing data.
- input_sh 6y agoWelcome to HN, where the majority reads nothing but the headline and discus how they feel about the headline.
- OskarS 6y agoThat's nothing to do with HN, that's just how the internet works.
- James_Henry 6y agoHN is on the internet, no? Also, HN definitely has a particularly bad headline-only problem, or maybe it just shows worse than some other places because people here have a tendency to ask really basic questions that the article clearly answers.
- godelski 6y agoI think the problem here is that HN has higher standards (and we should keep it that way). Reddit is far worse, but I don't want to deal with all the stupid there.
- James_Henry 6y agoDoes HN have higher standards? Maybe different standards, but I don't know that when it comes to reading the article that HN is much better than Reddit.