advertisement in packaged software (e.g. Firefox)

[Ian Malone]

On 13 February 2014 18:50, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
>
> Le Jeu 13 février 2014 19:40, Rahul Sundaram a écrit :
>> Hi
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>
>>> A party who is molesting me with ads and tries to spy on me, hardly is
>>> my
>>> friend.
>>
>>
>> That certainly goes way too far.  We have assurance from Mozilla that
>> there
>> is no spying or tracking going on here
>
> How can they give any assurance? Unless the targets of those ads are
> hosted by mozilla, all it takes to track people is for one of the
> advertisers to read its server logs. Surely one does not need an
> engineering degree to realise
> user processing in the browser + advertiser logs (of the ad picture or the
> ad link) = tracking by the advertiser of all people that match the
> processing rules
>

Fedora actually already packages software that would allow third
parties to track users, it's called yum and it makes requests to
mirrors who could determine what release and software you had
installed and rough geographical location. So context is important.

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imalone
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