Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri...
by Ajedi32 on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @03:08PM
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Are you honestly suggesting that the only possible use for aggregate user statistics is for ads? Not for A/B testing or tracking performance regressions?
Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri...
by msla on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @03:30PM
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I'm saying that the behavior of someone who was collecting aggregate statistics for ads and the behavior of someone who was collecting aggregate statistics for another reason would be identical in this forum, so we must assume the worst.
The main reason to collect data is monetization. People don't like to think they're being sold, so it's justified on other grounds. That's a universal. Since the way data is monetized is to track and segregate users, claims that it can be done in a privacy-respecting fashion are, therefore, specious.
There is one conclusion to be drawn here, and it isn't that Mozilla is going to respect my privacy.