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It's odd a company of that size cannot roll their own solution.
by zibzab 5y ago
It's odd a company of that size cannot roll their own solution.
- mkl 5y agoMaybe it's a condition of their funding deals with Google?
- ionwake 5y agoAh I had no idea, well that explains what happened I guess.
- johannes1234321 5y agoIt's odd a company of the size of GM cannot roll their own gas station and toad construction network. What's the purpose of the Mozilla organisation? Is it in creating a analytics platform? Mind that value of GA comes from all the info they have and thus can estimate age, gender, social things, ... of users etc. Building an comparable service is a notable effort with little synergies to what Mozilla does. (Whereas Google can combine with information from other businesses)
- nacs 5y agoI’m a Firefox user but let’s face it, Mozilla doesn’t have to make their own — there are plenty of open-source, self-hostable analytics solutions. (Also the “toad construction network” made me laugh)
- johannes1234321 5y agoThe question is: Why does Mozilla need analytics at all? Sure, counting downloads is good, but what other useful information are they pulling out of analytics?
- ionwake 5y agoI think he meant roll as in created their own solution whether it was from open source alternatives or not. The point being - why link what most would expect to be private stats to google, from a web browser, the one thing that perhaps should be a stand alone entity. I get the impression maybe you work for firefox as I find it hard to understand someone who would think otherwise on hackernews - but hey all sorts here am I right?