[TekMol]

    The "Get Add-ons" view in Firefox is an iframe

Please don't hide behind technical details. If click something in the browser and it causes Google to be notified, then you have send data about me to Google. Without my consent.

    privacy policy is linked from the Get Add-ons view

Nobody reads those and you know it. The reason people use Firefox is to not get tracked by Google.

Honestly, you hugely fucked up with this one. You lost a massive amount of trust with me that took years to grow.

[stinkytaco]

> Nobody reads those and you know it. The reason people use Firefox is to not get tracked by Google.

If you care about privacy, blind trust is never something you should have.

This has all the trappings of a mistake to me. A group of developers responsible for developing one area (the add-ons page), was not considering the impact it might have on another (the browser developers). Perhaps they should find a different solution, but it rings hollow to argue that a privacy conscious user shouldn't be expected to have read the privacy policy.

[kuschku]

Someone submitted a PR to Mozilla to fix this, and the Mozilla devs closed it, arguing that Google Analytics does not count as tracking. See: https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/pull/2787#issueco...

The TOR devs are fixing this part in their browser, and their comment was:

> Disallow `about:addons` unless the extensions directory is volatile, because regardless of what Mozilla PR says about respecting privacy, loading Google Analytics in a page that gets loaded as an IFRAME as part of an `about:` internal page, is anything but.

[stinkytaco]

Check that issue again. Before you posted this they agreed and pushed the issue to the add-ons team. Do not track should turn off Analytics.

But that's not my point. As I said, they could well be wrong, but it's over the top to argue that it's Mozilla's fault for disclosing this in the privacy policy (which apparently no one reads). If you are so privacy conscious that this bothers you that much, the privacy policy should be required reading.

[kuschku]

> If you are so privacy conscious that this bothers you that much, the privacy policy should be required reading.

No, this is something that by law I have to be informed about. And Mozilla has a reputation of working for their users, so I actually trusted them.

I do agree with you after this, the trust was misplaced, Mozilla is not any better than Google, NSA, MfS/Stasi or GeStaPo, just not giving a single fuck about privacy, but I did trust them before this, and so did many others.

In fact, people only used Mozilla products because of this trust.

[slizard]

There goes yet another example of Goodwin's law in action, but I'm not so glad for the arguably rash, overly emotional, and definitely not balanced analogy.