On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 10:23 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 16:47:38 +0200, > Nikos Roussos <comzeradd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 15:28 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > >> Le Mer 12 février 2014 17:20, Nikos Roussos a écrit : > >> > >> > The "New Tab" feature will provide quick access to popular sites in the > >> > users location, without any collection of personal data (except of > >> > course from checking the location of his IP). At lease this is the > >> > current design by Mozilla. > >> > >> And that opens the door to tracking hell. > > > >How is that? I don't the feature either but it has nothing to do with > >tracking. > > The fact that the package is calling home (whether or not the location > of the IP is checked), is a form of tracking. Particularly since firefox > updates are being handled by Fedora and there is no need for our version > to be calling home to check for updates. *If* it calls home. If this is a predefined list bundled with firefox there is no reason to call home.
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