On 21.02.2014 18:03, Sid Stamm wrote:
Tracking can be defined in many different ways, but what I hear most
frequently as the tracking people are concerned about is
cross-organization or cross-site tracking.
For example, if you use a popular news site, would it concern you if
they record which articles you view and recommend more?
Combined with all the other FHR data? Yes, it would concern me. What
tiles I click or whether I click no tiles also strikes me as irrelevant
regarding the health of my Firefox installation and profile. This seems
fishy. Note that Telemetry's description is much more liberal and
mentions usage data.
It would actually concern me less if we exposed to the click target that
the user came from a sponsored tile, instead of gathering this ourselves
together with loads of other data that we happen to gather (all for good
reasons).
I interpret what Mitchell writes as: the ads or other organizations
cannot use this to track you. We're not going to use sponsored results
or tiles to aid third parties in building a robust profile on you
without your consent and participation.
Well, sure, we're building a profile ourselves. We cannot ignore
ourselves as an involved party.
However, we still need to do
some accounting to make sure the feature is working as intended that we
cull unused/unpopular things and instead display the stuff more useful
to Firefox users.
And to make sure we can effectively sell them, since I don't think it's
reasonable to expect that we would have exact usage numbers and not use
them in negotiations with sponsors. That's not necessarily a problem,
but we shouldn't fool ourselves thinking we'd act differently from
random other companies at that point.
Dao
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