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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: 5, Insightful) by crafoo on Thursday August 24 2017, @04:34PM (3 children)
Can we use this to help kill Webbrowsers-as-OS? Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox are only begrudgingly giving users what they want. Can we use their hubris and arrogance to collapse the entire concept of over-complicated content browsers masquerading and shit-tier operating systems "for the web"? I think it's time we begin to think of all 3 as an infection and not as useful software. How can we attack their foundation? How can we undermine their push for telemetry, DRM in standards, and running a high-pressure sewage pipe spewing unverified javashit code to render what amounts to simple text and images?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 24 2017, @05:37PM
You win the internet today.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by mcgrew on Thursday August 24 2017, @05:40PM
I see the opposite problem: people installing apps for stuff like weather and news that you can get without an app wasting space on the device.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 24 2017, @06:20PM
I recently tried to use Kelly blue book, it was loading for over 30 seconds so I just left. Used to be simple and quick, I presume it was all the 3rd party api calls slowing shit down. Not sure what the solution would be, but "modern" web software is returning my computer the performance of the 90s.