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Not only enabled, but in breach of the Google Analytics' Terms which state very clearly: "You must post a Privacy Policy and that Privacy Policy must provide no

Not only enabled, but in breach of the Google Analytics' Terms which state very clearly: "You must post a Privacy Policy and that Privacy Policy must provide notice of Your use of cookies that are used to collect data. You must disclose the use of Google Analytics, and how it collects and processes data. " See section 7 "Privacy" here for the full text. http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html

userbinator 11y ago
They do mention it here, so I don't think they violate GA ToS: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/websites/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/websites/ Third party Services We use third party services such as Google Analytics and Optimizely. They use cookies, IP addresses, and online data tools.
- tombrossman 11y ago
  I see no privacy policy on the shapeoftheweb.mozilla.org site though you are correct that they do post that privacy policy on the completely different website www.mozilla.org. I suppose they would argue that's the same but I don't think it is good enough (especially for a site preaching privacy values). It should be down in the footer, or even better they should be using Piwik and skipping GA completely. To me, this feels like a website built by a pro-privacy team who had some marketing or PR person slap the GA code in there with no comprehension of irony at all. EDIT: Also to note that mozilla.org uses UA-36116321-1 tracking and shapeoftheweb.mozilla.org uses UA-49796218-22, which indicates to me that they are aware that these are two distinctly different sites.
  - nikolak 11y ago
    >I see no privacy policy on the shapeoftheweb.mozilla.org site though you are correct that they do post that privacy policy on the completely different website www.mozilla.org. It's on the same subdomain, and it includes link to mozilla.org which has link to privacy policy which also applies to shapeoftheweb.mozilla.org: >This privacy notice applies to Mozilla operated websites, which include the domains mozillians.org, mozilla.org, firefox.com, openbadges.org and webmaker.org. This includes, for example, bugzilla.mozilla.org, reps.mozilla.org, careers.mozilla.org, developers.mozilla.org, support.mozilla.org, addons.mozilla.org, and wiki.mozilla.org.

userbinator 11y ago

They do mention it here, so I don't think they violate GA ToS: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/websites/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/websites/ Third party Services We use third party services such as Google Analytics and Optimizely. They use cookies, IP addresses, and online data tools.

tombrossman 11y ago
I see no privacy policy on the shapeoftheweb.mozilla.org site though you are correct that they do post that privacy policy on the completely different website www.mozilla.org. I suppose they would argue that's the same but I don't think it is good enough (especially for a site preaching privacy values). It should be down in the footer, or even better they should be using Piwik and skipping GA completely. To me, this feels like a website built by a pro-privacy team who had some marketing or PR person slap the GA code in there with no comprehension of irony at all. EDIT: Also to note that mozilla.org uses UA-36116321-1 tracking and shapeoftheweb.mozilla.org uses UA-49796218-22, which indicates to me that they are aware that these are two distinctly different sites.
- nikolak 11y ago
  >I see no privacy policy on the shapeoftheweb.mozilla.org site though you are correct that they do post that privacy policy on the completely different website www.mozilla.org. It's on the same subdomain, and it includes link to mozilla.org which has link to privacy policy which also applies to shapeoftheweb.mozilla.org: >This privacy notice applies to Mozilla operated websites, which include the domains mozillians.org, mozilla.org, firefox.com, openbadges.org and webmaker.org. This includes, for example, bugzilla.mozilla.org, reps.mozilla.org, careers.mozilla.org, developers.mozilla.org, support.mozilla.org, addons.mozilla.org, and wiki.mozilla.org.