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

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 17 20:53:43 UTC 2014


On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 9:32 PM, DJ Delorie <dj at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> That's also a questionable "feature". Such a text box should not send
>> anything before you confirm it.
>
> Perhaps as part of the firewall installation step, the user could be
> given a list of sites that their PC may "call home" to - including
> official repos - and let them opt-in or opt-out accordingly.  If we
> block, say, *.mozilla.com at the firewall level, there's no chance
> that firefox will call home before the user has a chance to set their
> preferences.

Ugh .. sorry but that's the worst suggestion so far. No image the user
goes to http://addons.mozilla.org/ to install addons ... it won't
work. (just one random example but you get the idea).


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