Nicholas Nethercote schrieb:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 9:52 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
Tiles
Tiles are a feature of Firefox displayed on new tab pages. In order to provide
the tiles feature, Firefox sends to Mozilla data relating to the tiles such as
number of clicks, impressions, your IP address, URLs, locale information and
tile specific data (e.g., position and size of grid).
The second sentence is misleading and arguably disingenuous. Firefox
could provide the tiles feature without sending most or all of that
data to Mozilla. You could simply remove "In order to provide the
tiles feature, ".
Also, gee, it's a lot of data. In particular: "URLs"? That could mean
almost anything. Needs more detail.
Yes, as put here, it sounds like (for making the picture more colorful,
I'm implying "as you read in the news, we have ads in Firefox now and")
"we have a full-fledged ad tracking system there now".
The amount of data collected at least sounds like it would not be in
agreement with our principle of collecting only as much data as really
needed. I know we are collecting quite a bit on pre-release channels
(through Telemetry) to find out what is viable to do there - in that
policy I think we only need to specify what we are collecting by default
on releases, where Telemetry is off.
As Nick says, this feature has already had some negative press, let's
make sure we don't do more to have it portrayed in a bad light and in
particular specify things here in a clear manner that doesn't give
people those connotations of user tracking through ads.
KaiRo
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