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by tannhaeuser 2495 days ago
You call FF displaying pro-privacy promotionals while connecting to GA and Google Tag Manager reasonable?
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Heads up, Mozilla is on the way to be notorious Google services/Google Cloud user [0]. Recently, they started adoption of the Google Spanner in the Firefox-Sync related backend services, while in others they adopted the Google Pub Sub. The use of GA and GTM might seem like hypocrisy but my guess mozillians don't have enough workforce and/or assets to control infrastructure to roll their own analytics platform.

[0]: https://github.com/search?q=org%3Amozilla-services+google&ty...

> mozillians don't have enough workforce and/or assets to control infrastructure to roll their own analytics platform

That's hardly an excuse when you want to differentiate on privacy, is it?

Worth noting that Mozilla does have a special contract with Google, they say preserver privacy.
Yet still I think we should point it out. Mozilla can't have their cake, and eat it, too.
Why not? What is wrong with it?
Sending your data to a global surveillance network at the same time as they're boasting about how much they respect your privacy is a little odd.