On 6/11/12 3:11 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
About potential user backlash: even though both Microsoft and Google have a feature like this in IE and Chrome, Mozilla who could still face a user backlash from doing this sort of thing in Firefox. If Firefox sends data to Google just like Chrome, Firefox loses the advantage of not sending data to Google relative to Chrome. As for Microsoft, they have the explicit opt in mentioned above.
Depends on exactly what details are sent, our judgement on how privacy-sensitive it is, and what contractual limitations we can ask the provider (Google) to do with whatever data they can collect.
I think we got this right with SafeBrowsing feature (ie antiphish/attack warnings)... It's vaguely making a similar choice: given a URL, is it good or bad. It was designed and built to be privacy-sensitive enough that it can just be on by default.
I'd hope we could build this in a similar way... Justin _______________________________________________ dev-security mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security
