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by Vinnl 2481 days ago
Relevant context:

1. Mozilla only enabled Google Analytics after signing a contract with Google that that data would not be fed into Google's models. There's no reason to believe Google would violate that legal agreement.

2. The Twitter thread you linked is by a Brave employee. It should be judged by the facts it shows, but is good context to keep in mind w.r.t. their presentation.
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BrendanEich 2480 days ago
Are you at Mozilla? That contract was referenced in a bug long ago. I'm not sure it can be enforced, given how Google's revamped Analytics 360 works.
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Vinnl 2479 days ago
No I'm not. I'd imagine that a contract would be enforced by both parties respecting it, especially given that there's not that much to win for Google, and much to lose if, say, an employee would leak that it was being violated.
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BrendanEich 2479 days ago
Let's see the contract and its term, if not hear from Google that it is in effect. Sorry, but reputable blockers block GA because it is now tied into Google's overall ads/data business and they say as much in touting it, in their privacy policy even with its carve-outs, and in others' experience with it.

For Mozilla to use GA instead of self-hosted Matomo is odd to me as a founder of mozilla.org (none are left at Mozilla now, FYI). We do the latter at Brave. Is it just for convenience?

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