Firefox will scan your browsing history to suggest advertiser sites
i hope the torbrowser will have soon patches to disable this disgrace: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/firefox-will-scan-your-browsing-histo... -- otr fp: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/otr.txt
Dnia wtorek, 26 maja 2015 20:13:40 stef pisze:
i hope the torbrowser will have soon patches to disable this disgrace: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/firefox-will-scan-your-browsing-histo ry-to-suggest-advertiser-sites/
Mozilla is dead and there's nobody around to take over. -- Pozdrawiam, Michał "rysiek" Woźniak Zmieniam klucz GPG :: http://rys.io/pl/147 GPG Key Transition :: http://rys.io/en/147
Dnia środa, 27 maja 2015 11:35:08 Lodewijk andré de la porte pisze:
It's fine if it's client side. They can make it client side.
Not holding my breath, though... -- Pozdrawiam, Michał "rysiek" Woźniak Zmieniam klucz GPG :: http://rys.io/pl/147 GPG Key Transition :: http://rys.io/en/147
I *gather* (without much attribution/citation wise) that it'll be pseudo-client-side, with lists of topics being downloaded from Mozilla, and click-data being (poorly) obfuscated in return as "user clicked *some link in this set*". Not impressed, at all. This is a pattern, though; 1. Organisation wins favour by appealing to technically competent people who recommend organisation's product to less technically competent friends and family. 2. Organisation's user-base grows and organisation refocuses on a generally-applicable brand. Hackers still happy because decline takes time. 3. Organisation starts ignoring early-adopters and hacker-advocates who made it popular to begin with. Hackers ditch it. 4. Organisation coasts along on existing lay-customer-base for ages. 5. Organisation is replaced by an upstart that probably wins favour through early adopters and hacker-advocates. People don't listen to geeks on the "important" stuff, like "Don't post your credit card selfie to twitter", but when they want a recommendation for a good web browser, chat client, or model of phone, they do. And companies forget this the moment they've crested that wave. On 27/05/15 09:22, rysiek wrote:
Dnia środa, 27 maja 2015 11:35:08 Lodewijk andré de la porte pisze:
It's fine if it's client side. They can make it client side.
Not holding my breath, though...
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On 27 May 2015 at 03:22, rysiek <rysiek@hackerspace.pl> wrote:
Dnia środa, 27 maja 2015 11:35:08 Lodewijk andré de la porte pisze:
It's fine if it's client side. They can make it client side.
Not holding my breath, though...
""" 4) The browser fetches all available suggested tiles based on country and language from Onyx without using cookies or other user tracking identifiers. 5) User interactions, such as clicks, pins and blocks, are examples of data that may be measured and processed. View Mozilla’s Privacy Policy or our Data Privacy Principles for more information. 6) Onyx submits the interaction data to Disco, a restricted access database for largescale analysis. 7) Disco aggregates all Firefox tiles interactions, anonymizing personally identifiable data before sending to Redshift for reporting. 8) Charts and reports are pulled from Redshift using Zenko, a Content Services reporting tool, for analysis by Mozilla. 9) Mozilla sends this report to the partner shortly after the campaign ends. """ [0] """ How do you determine user interests? For Suggested Tiles, we know whether users are interested in your market category by matching a list of defined URLs (domains, or subdomains) with their most frequently and recently visited URLs in Firefox. In this way, we are able to preserve users’ anonymity while providing a high level of confidence about their interest in different site categories. What input do I have over the interest categories? We work with all our Suggested Tiles partners to define the most effective interest categories. Partners may provide suggestions for what URLs should be include. Mozilla’s Content Services Team will actually define those categories. """ [1] I'm most curious about what 'User Interactions' are reported. Clicks, pins, and blocks all reveal which tile a user saw, and therefore something about their browsing history. But they're also pretty fundamental to advertising. I'm more worried about Firefox reporting "Views" or "Mouseovers" or other things that are not clear, user-initiated actions. -tom [0] https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/files/2015/05/How-data-is-protecte... [1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/partnerships/contentservices/faq/
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