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Re:Can the new Firefox Quantum regain its web browser market... by Silhouette on Friday November 24, 2017 @05:04PM (#15773273)
Either way would render the experiment useless (self-selection bias).

But that is Mozilla's problem, not their users'.

As probably would be the legal position in many places, if news of this got out more widely and regulators started getting involved. It's hard to see how this wouldn't fall foul of even general EU data protection laws today, never mind anything stronger that is specific to Germany.

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Re:Can the new Firefox Quantum regain its web browser market... by dao- on Friday November 24, 2017 @05:28PM (#15773357)
> But that is Mozilla's problem, not their users'.

Sure, I'm just telling you how we arrived at the current situation and why your proposed alternative is a nonstarter for an experiment that tries to figure out if this feature adds user value in the first place.

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