Mozilla enabled ads in Firefox and they're active in Fedora

[Mathieu Bridon]

On Mon, 2014-11-17 at 11:37 +0200, Nikos Roussos wrote:
> I don't consider my IP address a call to home. [...] Even Gnome checks my
> IP's location to fix my timezone.

Not by default, you have to enable this explicitly.

> > Second, a user can easily accidentally click on ad, since it is mixed
> > among other tiles, with the user's browsing habits. 
> 
> And a user may accidentally start searching on the Google search box
> before she realizes that she sends data to Google "as she types" (that's
> how you get recommendations).

Indeed, this is in Firefox though, which is the application people are
saying they'd like to change, so it stops doing that without explicit
user opt-in.

> Again, this thing we discuss is already happening on Gnome Shell. Type
> "twitter" on your Gnome's search box.

I'm pretty confident that no network query is done when you search for
that, and that instead GNOME Software searches in its local metadata
cache.

Nothing outside of your own computer knows that you searched for
"twitter" in the GNOME search box.

> And I don't think there is a way
> currently to disable this. So please get your facts straight before
> start suggesting we change default browser.

All examples you have given of such opt-out network calls are either in
Firefox or incorrect.

So maybe there is a need to change something in the Firefox default
configuration after all? :)


-- 
Mathieu