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

[Gerald B. Cox]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com>
wrote:

> That's still much better than Chrome where the price (user tracking) is
> hidden and you can't disable it.


Well, Chrome isn't an option for Fedora due to proprietary portions...
however, there is the Chromium project and there is an effort ongoing to
get it included in the Fedora repositories.

I don't think Mozilla has done anything inherently evil by including these
ads in Firefox.  It was done in a very unobtrusive way and they made it
ridiculously easy to disable.

One other point about Google, Chrome and the Chromium project.  Many people
have alluded to the evil empire of Google and it's nefarious tracking and
hording of user information.  It isn't nefarious if you explain to people
exactly what you are doing.  Google has gone to extreme lengths to make
it's data collection policies as transparent as possible.  You can learn
about what Chrome collects and how by reading the privacy policy which is
easily found.  If you take the time to read it, you'll find there is
nothing sinister at all going on.  What is going on however is the fact
that Google competitors are spreading FUD much like Microsoft had done
about Linux.
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