Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a privacy-preserving way

Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by beachwood23 on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @10:04AM (#15072491)

Thanks for your input. Glad to hear someone from the Mozilla team on this thread.

Its an interesting compromise... because without improved performance and features, we'll lose Firefox entirely, and all of the relative privacy / security gains that entails. This is a good example where "perfect" privacy that reaches only a few is the enemy of "good" privacy that reaches more people.

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Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by moosingin3space on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @11:00AM (#15073048)

Firefox must continue to exist if we are to have any browser without an economic incentive to be user-hostile. If they need performance traces from websites, and they have an open, clear discussion of how to preserve as much user privacy as possible, they should collect them.

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Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by izacus on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @05:17PM (#15076478)

The data collection MAKES it user-hostile. If they start collecting data, then there's no point for Firefox to exist - they're just a crappier version of Chrome.

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