The website is totally broken for me: http://i.imgur.com/y01g1NG.png
You should mention which platform/browser/version you're running so they can fix it.
Mozilla's page talking about privacy has Google analytics enabled
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Re: Mozilla's page talking about privacy has Google analytics enabled
#12I've had GA's domains redirected to 0.0.0.0 in HOSTS ever since I knew of them. It's also another one of these single-page-apps that require JavaScript to display any content at all. I think with such a design they're clearly not targeting the sort of privacy levels that more users on HN than the Internet in general expect.
Check out RequestPolicy sometime if you're concerned about GA and other tracking and went through the trouble to bit bucket it in hosts; it's really nice to be able to set which other sites any given site can contact, and I trust it more than the other curated options like Ghostery etc. since I can see for myself where each site is allowed to go.
Re: Mozilla's page talking about privacy has Google analytics enabled
#13Next time you go to a movie theatre and there's someone standing there keeping count of how many people are going in - because it's there job or something - make sure to complain they're infringing on your right to privacy.
Re: Mozilla's page talking about privacy has Google analytics enabled
#14And they also include JavaScript from https://ethn.io/ , the relative privacy value of which you can judge for yourself, and whose parent company, I note in the footer, was bought by Facebook...
These people have a Del tha Funkee Homosapien reference right on their landing page. I therefore can't muster any hate onto them.
Re: Mozilla's page talking about privacy has Google analytics enabled
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
They do mention it here, so I don't think they violate GA ToS: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/websites/ Third party Services We use third party services such as Google Analytics and Optimizely. They use cookies, IP addresses, and online data tools.
I see no privacy policy on the shapeoftheweb.mozilla.org site though you are correct that they do post that privacy policy on the completely different website www.mozilla.org. I suppose they would argue that's the same but I don't think it is good enough (especially for a site preaching privacy values). It should be down in the footer, or even better they should be using Piwik and skipping GA completely. To me, this…
>I see no privacy policy on the shapeoftheweb.mozilla.org site though you are correct that they do post that privacy policy on the completely different website www.mozilla.org.
It's on the same subdomain, and it includes link to mozilla.org which has link to privacy policy which also applies to shapeoftheweb.mozilla.org:
>This privacy notice applies to Mozilla operated websites, which include the domains mozillians.org, mozilla.org, firefox.com, openbadges.org and webmaker.org. This includes, for example, bugzilla.mozilla.org, reps.mozilla.org, careers.mozilla.org, developers.mozilla.org, support.mozilla.org, addons.mozilla.org, and wiki.mozilla.org.
Re: Mozilla's page talking about privacy has Google analytics enabled
#16Next time you go to a movie theatre and there's someone standing there keeping count of how many people are going in - because it's there job or something - make sure to complain they're infringing on your right to privacy.
I often pass by without handing him or her my ticket. Fight the power!
Re: Mozilla's page talking about privacy has Google analytics enabled
#17Next time you go to a movie theatre and there's someone standing there keeping count of how many people are going in - because it's there job or something - make sure to complain they're infringing on your right to privacy.
That same person is also standing at the entrance of almost every other building. To make his job easier he's also given you a unique identifier, so that he can notice when you enter a building he watches. I'm sure you've never noticed him, most people don't.
Re: Mozilla's page talking about privacy has Google analytics enabled
#18Mozilla have a Google Analytics Premium account and they try to minimize the information they share [1].
Our Google Analytics premium account is set to opt-out on all of 3rd party
uses of the data and the only people who have access to the anonymous
aggregated data is Mozilla Employees. This is not the normal Google
Analytics setup that most people use on other websites.
Also, to increase privacy we flipped the anonymize flag in the Google
Analytics request...
Re: Mozilla's page talking about privacy has Google analytics enabled
#19Next time you go to a movie theatre and there's someone standing there keeping count of how many people are going in - because it's there job or something - make sure to complain they're infringing on your right to privacy.
do you really think that's all google analytics provides, a hit counter?
you should really use it sometime, or at least familiarise yourself with its capabilites.
Re: Mozilla's page talking about privacy has Google analytics enabled
#20Next time you go to a movie theatre and there's someone standing there keeping count of how many people are going in - because it's there job or something - make sure to complain they're infringing on your right to privacy.
That same person is also standing at the entrance of almost every other building. To make his job easier he's also given you a unique identifier, so that he can notice when you enter a building he watches. I'm sure you've never noticed him, most people don't.
And at the end of the day, he goes over hist list of what buildings you went into, to analyze what sort of things you like so he can show up at your door as a door salesman to sell you some product he believes you will be interested in.