An update on Mozilla’s PPA experiment and how it protects user privacy while testing cutting edge technologies to improve the open web.
An update on Mozilla’s PPA experiment and how it protects user privacy while testing cutting edge technologies to improve the open web.
Mozilla is really going for a “third time’s the charm” approach on collecting extra data, aren’t they.
First they silently started sucking up extra user data without consent and without warning, something not even Google attempted.
Then, they got caught, and took to Reddit to paternalistically explain why they knew better than the user, and why a consent dialog would be confusing.
And now, over a month after the initial reports come out, Mozilla triples down. What a stupid, stupid, stupid decision.
- commodoreboxer
It’s just more communication about the same thing. Started out with just a mention in the release notes and a checkbox in the settings, which clearly wasn’t enough (hence your calling it “silently”), then a more elaborate response on Reddit, and now this more detailed blog post outside of Reddit’s walled garden. And I’m sure it’s not the last we’ll hear of it. (I’d be curious about the experiment’s results too, for example.)