On 12/18/2017 09:55 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: ...snip... > > “Our goal with the custom experience we created with Mr. Robot was to > engage our users in a fun and unique way,” a Mozilla representative > said in a statement. “Real engagement also means listening to feedback. > And so while the web extension/add-on that was sent out to Firefox > users never collected any data, and had to be explicitly enabled by > users playing the game before it would affect any web content, we heard > from some of our users that the experience we created caused > confusion.” > > (FWIW I don't think that statement is even factually correct; I can't > prove it with screenshots, but I'm pretty sure that when the addon > appeared in my Firefox install, it was enabled, not disabled). I think even when the extension was 'enabled' you had to do something further to cause it to do anything. But it's not very clear... > I think we should be concerned by this kind of behaviour on the part of > the supplier of our default desktop browser, and we should express that > concern to them. Assuming Fedora-as-a-project shares my concern, do we > have a channel to communicate with them about this, and request > assurances that they understand the seriousness of this, and that they > have changed policies so that nothing like it will happen in future? That would be good (I don't know if we have such a channel or not). Additionally, can we turn the "Allow firefox to install and run studies" preference to off/false by default in Fedora packages. It seems odd that this is now opt-out. kevin
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