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So they don't have enough manpower to maintain features people actually want (like the JavaScript toggle in settings which Chrome apparently has) but they do to make things no one will use that will get shut down in a few years?
I like that you can run your own versions of these studies, e.g. https://github.com/mozilla-rally/rally-study-01 to collect your own data. I think it would be a novel idea to make this the primary focus of the project, enabling users to see and understand their own data before donating it to research projects. For example, I know that the study above is called "Your Time Online and 'Doomscrolling'", but I don't have…
It seems that what they’ve done is told us exactly what data they will collect but have left it unanswered as to what specific social science methodologies they will use to analyze the data.
It is very likely that their intention is to not set that expectation with the data crowdsourcers so that the researchers have the flexibility to adjust their methodological approaches in an iterative fashion.
Whoever wrote this piece is way too close to... whatever it is Mozilla is doing here. There seems to be an assumption that users will be gleeful to throw their data at legitimate researchers from legitimate institutions doing legitimate work. What "data"? Browsing history? Identity? Something else? Why? What's in it for them? Since when was giving our data to third parties a good idea? There is literally no motivatio…
This is a luxury many researchers that work outside of these big tech companies don't have, which creates a scientific power imbalance. Mozilla Rally is meant to give these capabilities to everyone, and the platform is meant to ensure that you always know what you sign up for and what data is being used.
If I understand the Princeton example correctly: They want to figure out how people consume and spread misinformation. Social networks like Facebook have all that data but won't share it. Now you can opt-in to a Rally study where independent researchers can examine the data.
Mozilla, the company that says "we need more than deplatforming", wants me to contribute to the research that will be used for censoring the internet? No thanks.
It's not easy to understand, especially from the blog post alone, but as far as I understand it, the proposition is the following: Big companies have the ability to do research on users all the time, either by doing anonymous studies or by tracking you for their ad networks. This is a luxury many researchers that work outside of these big tech companies don't have, which creates a scientific power imbalance. Mozilla…
It would have been great if they’d invested the resources to use Solid, here.
I wrote a data sharing platform for the browser that is privacy focused. Privacy first means I couldn’t give any data to any third party no matter how much I want to because the platform won’t let me.