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how does this get through the MS smartscreen and authenticode checks?
Is the current Mozilla CEO a plant by Google with the goal of driving Mozilla into the ground as much as possible? I don't understand how they can keep fucking up their business so badly.
A download identifier really isn't that bad. Maybe they need to actually show some numbers of their downloads to justify budgets and other things. It's not like they are having tracking JavaScript on 80% of the worlds Web sites like someone else I know, starting with Googl...
At the most basic level, you can get this by doing a count over http logs.
As dry as German humor gets :)
> A quick check of Chrome installers returned identical hashes each time. OK, however, are we completely sure that Chrome installer doesn't generate this token on launch and talk with the mothership? This sounds like whitewashing Chrome just to increase the impact of the article or push Chrome or both. Like Chrome is not tracking me in and out of the internet and in the kitchen making tea and noting its brand and rep…
Is the current Mozilla CEO a plant by Google with the goal of driving Mozilla into the ground as much as possible? I don't understand how they can keep fucking up their business so badly.
Firefox users who prefer to download the browser without the unique identifier may do so in the following two ways: Download the Firefox installer from Mozilla's HTTPS repository (formerly the FTP repository). Download Firefox from third-party download sites that host the installer, e.g., from Softonic. It's nuts and another indication Mozilla doesn't understand the reason they exist, but it's not that hard to get ar…
They seem to be trying to gather a lot of telemetry to measure how they can boost popularity of Firefox. I wonder did they tried to measure how the measurement itself influences popularity? Social measurements are like quantum ones, they change reality. There was a funny story of a Hawthorn Experiment[1], which tried to find ways to boost productivity but at the end managed to state just that the very attempt to cond…
I don't really understand telemetry. How is Google Analytics helping them to improve the browser? Is it to see which features are actually being used?
That's what the stuff's for. Some of the tools for these things record entire sessions, including mouse movements. It's creepy as hell and even the tamest of "telemetry" 100% would have gotten something classed, unambiguously, as spyware, in the distant past of ~15-20 years ago.
This wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't that the entire brand identity of Firefox is Privacy. It's like discovering there's ham in a vegetarian sandwich. When you ask them they look puzzled and say their focus group was clear it tastes a lot better that way, besides it's just a little bit and the bread is vegetarian and there's way more meat in a Big Mac.