On 4/30/14 11:46 AM, benoit.les...@gmail.com wrote: > I've read the previous discussion again and I think we may want to revisit > this decision, at least as a long-term goal. > > First, it was made two years ago when Mozilla wasn't so vocal about Privacy > and User control as our core values. We hadn't tools like Lightbeam producing > a heavy cognitive dissonance when visiting that page (incidentally, I didn't > saw it on first try because I asked Adblock Plus to prevent websites from > tracking me). > > One could say that Lightbeam isn't smart enough to detect if we opted for > anonymized tracking and that we should fix that. I think thas isn't the > problem. The problem is we are using a tracking tool from the very same > company that we argue is tracking us online, by sending them all information > they would need to track us. > > It doesn't matter if Mozilla has an agreement with them because: > * The user doesn't know that. Even if > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1003804 was fixed, nobody reads > all the small print. All they will see is we send their data to Google, > period. > * If they don't trust that organization in the first place, no signed > agreement will convince them anyway.
IIRC, it was actually because of us that Google added the option to anonymize the data, so there's an angle of "making the existing badness better for everyone" here, but the point about trust is a good one. There's a choice here (with more than these two options I imagine): do we try to stick with GA and educate users / promote improving existing analytics, or do we try to do it the absolute right way? I'm on the side of improving existing analytics, because if we just do our own thing, the most we're doing is setting a good example for others. If we actually push services like GA to offer more privacy-friendly options, we're improving the state of analytics privacy for a large swath of the internet, which IMO is more effective. - Mike Kelly _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
