Mozilla enabled ads in Firefox and they're active in Fedora

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Mon Nov 17 18:08:36 UTC 2014


On 11/17/2014 04:14 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 02:25:48PM +0100, Lars Seipel wrote:
>> So Mozilla has recently gone live with its advertisement tiles on the
>> "New Tab" page. Only newly created profiles get to see this stuff.
>
> So, here's a (genuine) question: how is this behavior different, from a
> Fedora policy point of view, than if the default for new tabs were to
> go to <https://start.mozilla.org/>, and Mozilla ran advertisements on
> that page?

IMO, the default of https://start.mozilla.org violates fedora policies 
and ought to be changed.

It's a phone-home function, which can only be opted out by digging into 
preferences.

Ralf




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