[fab] Re: Firefox splash page tracker

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 12:57 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> 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.
> 

I'm not accusing you or even red hat of being the big brothers.

There are plenty of them in the world. And recording what folks in
various developing nations is practically a pass-time for a good portion
of our government.

-sv