On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 2:46 PM Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2018-06-12, Darren S. <[email protected]> wrote: > > One other factor with Firefox is the use of the platform to push > > "experiements" and "studies" in their nightly builds, as discussed in > > these posts: > > It's unfair to single out Firefox for that > > > https://drewdevault.com/2017/12/16/Firefox-is-on-a-slippery-slope.html > > https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/FirefoxNoNightly > > https://textslashplain.com/2017/10/18/chrome-field-trials/ I’m don’t mean to single out Mozilla for having experimental feature support, which is indeed in common. The distinction for me is the Chrome post describes testing of upcoming features in the browser whereas the Firefox history discloses things like an ad (one of how many?) being pushed silently to the client for an affiliate (that’s adware behavior, and as an extension that they intended to be hidden), and a DNS data collection event to which many users are very likely to be opposed. Mozilla argues against that sort of thing being opt-in and widely disclosed. -- Darren Spruell [email protected]
