> I see no reason why the Android version of Chromium would "need" Google
Analytics more than the desktop versions.
I am not saying it needs it.
> It is minified.
I know. But you can unminify it. That's what I meant. It is still difficult
to read due to the non-descriptive variable and function names but that is
surely easier to reverse engineer than a binary code.
> Jxself points out how Mozilla restricts freedom 2 through its trademark
policy. That abuse is a (real) problem that is not related in any way to
hypothetical licensing issues in Firefox's code base.
I may be wrong but it seems to me it contradicts your previous:
>> I have never heard of licensing issues in Firefox.
To put it differently: license-wise, it looks like Firefox is not free
software due to the restrictive licensing terms which you and jxself mention.
So saying that it has no licensing issues is incorrect.
> What do you mean?
The above.
> It is a completely separate issue. Actually a "non-issue" if it is
disabled.
Well, it is an issue that it exists in the first place and that it is enabled
by default. It reveals the intent of the vendor and that is what bothers me.
Add to that the affiliations of that same vendor with PRISMed companies, the
way they disregard bugs about privacy concerns etc.
> I have never seen the FSF pretending that.
You have because I have shown it previously (paragraph 3 and next):
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/web-browser?page=4#comment-127279
And as a whole: the talks about how malicious non-free software followed by
conclusions and advises "that's why you should use free software" definitely
creates the implication that free software is safe. So it becomes a common
assumption.
> For the nth time, the free/proprietary distinction essentially has nothing
to do with what the software does, with its "behavior".
I know that. Yet consider the above and the reason why people here prefer
free software and ask various questions about how to secure their
communication and web browsing perfectly etc. Surely not because they want
free telemetry. So this is an issue that needs to be addressed somehow.
> The only difference that it makes is that a user who wants to help Mozilla
improve Firefox through telemetry cannot.
Help Mozilla? The helpless Mozilla corporation? I am not quite sure I get
your point.
