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I don't believe your personal convenience trumps everyone's right to privacy.
A crash log doesn't violate your privacy, nor does usage statistics when properly anonymized. Sometimes telemetry is just telemetry.
Says who?
If that's the case then ask the user to email you the log. Instead, we get covert eavesdropping.
"These are used by Mozilla to spy on you, and are as such a significant risk to privacy." Wow that's a big claim. Any proofs that the data collected is not anonymous? It sounds a lot like fear-mongering
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I was under the impression the search deals are merely which engine are the default. How does having the default search be Google make the Mozilla corp beholden to Google?
If Google is paying what Yahoo was, it's $300 million a year for the default search option on Firefox. Google pays Apple billions to stay the default on the iPhone as well.
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I don't believe your personal convenience trumps everyone's right to privacy.
A crash log doesn't violate your privacy, nor does usage statistics when properly anonymized. Sometimes telemetry is just telemetry.
I'm puzzled that he sees websockets as a privacy hazard. From what I understand, WS connections are CORS protected (though the model is slightly different than standard CORS for historical reasons) and were designed somwhat friendly to proxies. So what is the problem? (Though browsers don't seem to honor proxy settings for WS in practice. I guess, this coughs be corrected. Does anyone know the reasons for that?) WebR…
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I think he's just pointing out the irony of someone purporting to aid the security-conscious having an expired cert on his own site. Unless this is really some meta-level social commentary on how people will trust a complete stranger's website despite an invalid cert because he seems like a nice guy.
Why do few pages of readonly text advice need a certificate that badly?
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Wired, it gives me a location 3 miles away from my house. Smartphone, it want to use GPS. That's kind of cheating, isn't it?
Smartphone, it want to use GPS. That's kind of cheating, isn't it? It is, but it also shows just how much information people could leak if they casually dismiss any permissions prompting with "allow" (or even worse, have such permissions be granted by default.)
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On the contrary. Maybe if you're on a hardwired desktop, but for everything else it is incredibly accurate. You don't even need to have GPS in your device -- WiFi is plenty. Try it: https://whereamirightnow.com/ It puts my laptop exactly where I am.
Wired, it gives me a location 3 miles away from my house. Smartphone, it want to use GPS. That's kind of cheating, isn't it?