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

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 18 17:16:12 UTC 2014


On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 14:58:41 +0100,
>  Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Another way how to promote Fedora is to set "welcome" page to
>> start.fedoraproject.org. It appears when Firefox starts on fresh profile and
>> can point people to the Fedora project.
>
>
> We shouldn't be doing that either. Any welcome page initially displayed
> should be from a copy on the installation, not something fetched from a
> remote server.

That's getting into the "paranoid" area .. where do you draw the line?
The fedora project (and lots of its mirros)also gets your ip when the
system checks for updates,


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