If every distro uses a different key, then Google can distinguish which distro users are using. Wouldn't that qualify as a privacy breach? IIRC, we explicitely don't send the google cookie for safebrowsing. If we don't do that for geoloc, that would seem like a bug. OTOH, they can probably correlate with the google cookie the user is already using in the same browser... So while using a different key means more information available to google, is it actually making things worse than they already are?
That being said, doesn't shipping those keys in the source packages in distros breach their TOS? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1401402 Title: Ubuntu build of Firefox lacks Google OAuth ID, prevents contact import in Hello Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Confirmed Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Bug description: Starting from verstion 34.0, Firefox, including Ubuntu build thereof, supports WebRTC based voice/video communication feature named "Hello": https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-hello-make-receive-calls-without-account This feature works in Ubuntu build, except importing contacts from Google account: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1106854 Attempt to import contacts results in this Google error page: ==== 401. That’s an error. Error: invalid_client The OAuth client was not found. Request Details scope=https://www.google.com/m8/feeds response_type=code redirect_uri=urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob:auto client_id=no-google-oauth-api-clientid ==== Apparently, for the import feature to work, the build needs to include Google OAuth Client ID. The process is discussed here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Loop/OAuth_Setup Apparently, Ubuntu's build of Firefox does not include this Client ID. Please consider adding it. Hopefully then "Hello" will be fully functional, including contacts import. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1401402/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
