On 11/18/2014 08:24 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Nikos Roussos > <comzer...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: >> On 11/16/2014 08:24 PM, Christopher wrote: >>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 6:46 AM, Mustafa Muhammad >>> <mustafaa.alhamda...@gmail.com <mailto:mustafaa.alhamda...@gmail.com>> >>> wrote: > >>> This doesn't seem relevant to this discussion, unless Fedora browsers >>> are automatically, and without the user's explicit knowledge or >>> permission, navigating to Google's search engine, which (AFAICT) they >>> are not. >> >> Same happens with these tiles. No data is sent back to Mozilla unless >> you *choose* to click one of the promoted tiles. > > Even if not sent to Mozilla, it's accessible to the advertisers. I > could spend a long time explaining the various means, that web > advertisers track their users, ranging from crafting URL's and > metadata about the particular requests to 'web bugs', those little one > pixel transparent gifs so ubiquitous on the plethora of > ad.doublelick.net websites with fake names used to collect the data.
The tiles are coming from Mozilla. So yes please explain how the advertisers can track me through them if I don't click them.
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