On April 30, 2014 9:47:55 PM EEST, Robert Kaiser <ka...@kairo.at> wrote: >benoit.les...@gmail.com wrote: >> * 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. > >That's the one argument that I think is most important here. > >While Mozilla is OK with the contractual obligations, and I personally >do trust Google to hold those up (because it would be a legal and >reputation-wise problem if they don't) - but users out there see the >Firefox in-product pages call out to Google's Analytics services and >those are know as a track-the-internet service to many.
This is why many people call this feature as Dark Pattern [1], because it doesn't actually mean "do not track". It's just about cutting off personalized ads. I've seen many Mozillians who stopped promoting this feature. Piwik is an analytics tool that is much closer to Mozilla's values, Open Source and surprisingly it stops tracks you if you've made that choice on your browser settings. So if we have enough people from the community who want to step up and deploy/maintain it for at least some of our sites, the argument of "limited resources" would be void. [1] http://darkpatterns.org/what_is_a_dark_pattern/ ~nikos _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
