[fab] Re: Firefox splash page tracker

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Fri Oct 6 16:50:36 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 12:42 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > It is inappropriate if it is not known by the user. If it is a
> > voluntary agreement between the user and the Fedora Group that the
> > user knows what is tracked, how the data is anonymized, how the data
> > is being used, and how it can be turned off then it is something that
> > people can trust and not in my view of the world inappropriate.
> 
> Just curious.  Do you feel that we ship without the big cookie warning 
> turned on by default in firefox as an example of something that's 
> inappropriate?
> 

If we're using that being disabled to allow us to gather more tracking
information then yes. We're CHOOSING to disable items that would let the
user know we're tracking them.

It's like Gator - but for linux.

-sv





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