Re:Steve Teixeira, Mozilla’s New Chief Product Officer
by bbkane on Monday August 15, 2022 @07:37PM
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I do think they should set up donations directly to Firefox development and support, but I disagree on the telemetry and Pocket. Telemetry is useful for improving the product and people like pocket.
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Re:Steve Teixeira, Mozilla’s New Chief Product Officer
by candiddevmike on Monday August 15, 2022 @07:45PM
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Telemetry has been proven time and time again to be useless for adding improvements _users actually want_. If you want feedback, ask for it, don't secretly observe your users from a distance.
Re:Steve Teixeira, Mozilla’s New Chief Product Officer
by Nextgrid on Monday August 15, 2022 @07:42PM
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> Telemetry is useful for improving the product
Great, make it opt-in then. People have various legitimate reasons to decide for themselves whether they want to enable it or not. Keep in mind that under the GDPR it must be absolutely opt-in and the current implementation is in breach.
> people like pocket
Just like people like uBlock Origin (and I'd argue a lot more people like uBO than Pocket) and yet it isn't embedded in the browser for some reason (despite being permissively licensed and actually doing something to protect privacy).