+1 (as a Moz fan and privacy expert) On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 2:35 AM, Kris Maglione <kmagli...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 07:27:39PM -0700, Nicholas Alexander wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 3:56 PM, Xidorn Quan <m...@upsuper.org> wrote: >> >>> It's fine to embed this experiment in the product, and blog about it, but >>> it's definitely not fine to have it enabled by default and send every DNS >>> request to a third-party. >>> >>> I can understand that the intent must be good, and for better privacy, >>> but >>> the approach of doing so is not acceptable. Users would think Firefox is >>> going to just send data to arbitrary third-party without agreement from >>> them. >>> >>> As you can see from the replies, almost all people outside the network >>> team has expressed concerns about this, which should be considered a >>> signal >>> already that how other technical users may feel about this experiment, >>> and >>> how technical news would create a title for this. >>> >> >> Let me add my voice as a person outside the network team who can >> understand >> the concerns and _still thinks we should be doing this_. > > > I'll second this. > > I think it's reasonable to be concerned about the public reaction to this, > but I also think it's worth doing. The end result of this will almost > certainly be improved privacy and security for users who have this enabled > by default, and we can't get to that point without doing a study like this. > > I think it's worth the risk of a backlash. But I also think we should do > what we can to minimize that backlash. > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
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