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Neowin has a brief warning that Mozilla plans to collect anonymized user data. The given reason is to better understand how people use Firefox. Perhaps the most alarming aspect of this plan is that it is opt-out rather than opt-in. This is very far from the early days of Firefox when it had previously touted privacy as one of its main advantages.
As stated in the Google Groups announcement thread, they intend to use RAPPOR:
RAPPOR is a novel privacy technology that allows inferring statistics about populations while preserving the privacy of individual users.
This repository contains simulation and analysis code in Python and R.
[...] Publications
- RAPPOR: Randomized Aggregatable Privacy-Preserving Ordinal Response
- Building a RAPPOR with the Unknown: Privacy-Preserving Learning of Associations and Data Dictionaries
Links
[Update @ 20170824_152224 UTC: fixed bad link to Google Groups thread.]
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Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated]
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @07:59AM (1 child)
You missed the post a couple of weeks ago about Mozilla using Google Analytics to track users, with no way to disable or block it. Even tracking blockers were prevented from blocking it.
The official response: "Just block it at the DNS level". So, don't recommend Firefox to anyone who isn't capable of running their own DNS... Got it.
Oh, they did retract that after a week or so, but as they say, building up trust takes years, destroying trust is instant.
If you still trust Firefox, YOU are the one with "a level of cognitive dissonance that is over 9000".
For the rest of us, rebuilding that trust will take years of Mozilla not using Google Analytics, not implementing opt-out[1] tracking, etc.
[1] The whole point of opt-out is hoping that 90% will either fail to notice the option or forget about it, and thus be included against their will. For this reason, opt-out is never used by anyone trust-worthy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @05:40PM
So you use google chrome because moziolla uses google anal?