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Re:What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first ... by rhaps0dy on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @07:07AM (#20808250)
It is pretty unlikely that a company (Google) would break a contract with another relatively large organisation (Mozilla). Yes, Google vacuum up all your data and do shady stuff with it, but only because all of it is legal.

Plus, the amount of data that they get from Mozilla must be tiny compared to the amount of data that they collect through their search engine: it's only data on mozilla.org, not data of everyone that uses the browser at all times. It is not wise to risk a lawsuit over it.

> I wonder why. Implementing some basic analytics on a few pages shouldn't be that hard.

Maybe defining a contract to prevent use of Mozilla data without loopholes is harder.

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Re:What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first ... by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @07:50AM (#20808569)
It will be "anonymised" I imagine, enough to give Google all they want and still let Mozilla get paid and _say_ they don't give up user data.

There's surely no way to tell what they do with the data at the other end? It's Google and their serf, Mozilla, I can't imagine it's wholesome.

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Re:What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first ... by shkkmo on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @08:43AM (#20808929)
> It will be "anonymised" I imagine, enough to give Google all they want and still let Mozilla get paid

Do you have you any basis for this assertion?

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Re:What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first ... by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @10:22AM (#20820037)
For the assertion of my assumption? The post itself is evidence of it.
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Re:What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first ... by judge2020 on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @09:29PM (#20816089)
You can see from the screenshot in the linked bug report that the data won't be shared whatsoever if those boxes aren't checked.
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