[fab] Re: Firefox splash page tracker

[Christopher Blizzard]

seth vidal wrote:
> 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.

So that default applies to google, redhat.com and lots of other sites. 
It's part of how the web works today.

And once again, tracking implies some kind of nefarious end or big 
brother type thing.  Once again, I'm just interested in if you're using 
it, not what you're doing with it or who you are.

--Chris