Hello Gareth,
Thanks for your answer, but I am still a bit unhappy with the
explanation provided, because a contract is not a good argument for me
(and for lots of people too, especially after Prism has been revealed).
Though I understand the needs of these requests.
As a compromise, couldn't these AJAX requests be made only when
Telemetry is active? Technically, Telemetry would send a special request
header for Mozilla websites. Or at least, for the whatsnew pages, which
only concerns Firefox users.
Thus, only the people who would have agreed to share their usage of
Firefox would be concerned by this data collection.
I think and hope that the population having activated Telemetry would be
representative enough.
Also, I saw the bugzilla report #858839
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=858839>, about not
including any Google Analytics scripts when Do Not Track (DNT) was
active, being rejected because of the interpretation in bugzilla #731314
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731314>. I think it is a
good idea and I don't understand why you don't see DNT as an polite
inquiry from the user to not include any tracking scripts (not only for
advertisement), including GA. After all, quoting
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/dnt/ :
Mozilla Firefox offers a Do Not Track feature that lets*you express a
preference not to be tracked by websites*. When the feature is
enabled, Firefox will tell advertising networks and other websites and
applications *that you want to opt-out of tracking* for purposes
_*like*_ behavioral advertising.
Could you please reconsider the status of**bugzilla #858839 please? And
thus do not use GA in the whatsnew page in the case DNT is active?
As a bonus:
- you could somehow inform the visitor of these websites that they
accept to help Mozilla to do these surveys (and offer an option to
disallow ).
- you could consider moving to another solution, such as Piwik, of
course after a study. Please, reconsider this after the revelation of
Prism and knowing that Piwik must have been improved.
I know that I may be considered a bit hard to please, but that's because
I see Mozilla as a leader about the issue of privacy.
Really, I would have given up the idea of debating about that if I
wasn't encouraging what Mozilla (including its community) does for that.
Florent
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