On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Adam Williamson < adamw...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-12-18 at 20:52 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > <snip> > > So I just booted Firefox 27 Workstation live and opened Firefox. > Indeed, a pop-under tab appears with this URL (so you can close it > without even seeing it). > If you're concerned about security and privacy, you have to read. It's not fair to cast aspersions because you weren't paying attention. The relevant text reads: > > <snip> > > I would suggest that nothing in this text reasonably covers "shield > studies"; it was clearly written to cover old-school telemetry, not > this later and more extensive capability to install custom-written add- > ons to perform additional data collection. Yet the "Allow Firefox to > install and run studies" checkbox is checked by default. > If you read the page, you'll see where there is a highlighted phrase that says: "Choose how you want to share this data in Firefox" following by a selection button. You are then taken to a page where you can opt-out and read more about the Fx Studies. > > And in any case, a tie-in with a television-show related game is > clearly neither telemetry nor some kind of user interaction study. Yet > to me, Mozilla's response does not seem to convey understanding of this > at all. It basically just says "oh don't worry it didn't do anything by > default", which is sort of grandly missing the point. > > Mozilla has already admitted they made a mistake and removed Looking Glass from the Fx Studies. I believe they understand the situation quite well. It's not helpful to beat a dead horse.
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