Re:Firefox Translations doesn't use the cloud
by GekkePrutser on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @06:34PM
(#33794906)
Weird. Why give your biggest competitor insight in your usage numbers??
Re:Firefox Translations doesn't use the cloud
by s3p on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @11:40PM
(#33797087)
I feel like it won't matter. FF translation usage statistics will be a small fraction of Google's, and I can't imagine them even being interested at that kind of data. Since it's an add on (vs. Chrome auto translation by default), it probably won't be adopted by much of the browser userbase.
Re:Firefox Translations doesn't use the cloud
by andrewxdiamond on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @01:03AM
(#33797498)
It is illegal for GCP to give that information to Chrome. pretty blatant antitrust violation
Re:Firefox Translations doesn't use the cloud
by andrenatalbr on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @10:33AM
(#33802094)
No usage data is sent to Google. Only the models are stored on GCS under Mozilla's account and tracking is not even an option.
Re:Firefox Translations doesn't use the cloud
by GekkePrutser on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @06:37PM
(#33809670)
They can still tell the number of downloads, thus the number of users using this when a new language model update is released.
as noted in [0], the models are hosted on storage.googleapis.com and downloaded on demand. this still seems to be the case [1]
0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31604095
1: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations/blob/main/ex...