2013/12/4 Irvin <[email protected]> > Another different to our search engine agreement is that, when you search > Google/Yahoo through Firefox’s search box, it’s Google/Yahoo who paid > Mozilla for this behavior. But in this case, it’s 3-rd party affiliate > company paid to Mozilla, for we redirect user through their service. > > (imaging if Bing company paid Mozilla for redirect every user’s > Google/Yahoo search through their service. The user maybe will not noticed > because redirect happened quickly, but Bing will know when and what user is > looking.) > > Is it look like we're encourage 3-rd party ad companies to paid us for let > them tracking our user? >
Uhm, that sounds bad, *really* bad. What chanet.com.cn does with the data, which kind of data is collected? What's the aggregated value this redirect offers to the users? How does a redirect generates revenue? Do they add ads? For example, we use tracking links on the newsletter emails, but I assume it's for analytics purposes and for users that accepted the newsletter privacy policy. In this case, the tracking is added to a manually added bookmark sending data to a third party. Does the China version have a different privacy policy than regular Firefox? Are they informed about it before downloading? Are we cool with this? All this sounds very un-mozilla. Regards. -- Rubén Martín (Nukeador) Mozilla Reps Mentor http://mozilla-hispano.org http://twitter.com/mozilla_hispano http://facebook.com/mozillahispano _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
