advertisement in packaged software (e.g. Firefox)

[Nikos Roussos]

On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 10:23 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 16:47:38 +0200,
>    Nikos Roussos <comzeradd at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 15:28 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> >> Le Mer 12 février 2014 17:20, Nikos Roussos a écrit :
> >>
> >> > The "New Tab" feature will provide quick access to popular sites in the
> >> > users location, without any collection of personal data (except of
> >> > course from checking the location of his IP). At lease this is the
> >> > current design by Mozilla.
> >>
> >> And that opens the door to tracking hell.
> >
> >How is that? I don't the feature either but it has nothing to do with
> >tracking.
> 
> The fact that the package is calling home (whether or not the location 
> of the IP is checked), is a form of tracking. Particularly since firefox 
> updates are being handled by Fedora and there is no need for our version 
> to be calling home to check for updates.

*If* it calls home. If this is a predefined list bundled with firefox
there is no reason to call home. 


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