On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Nikos Roussos <comzer...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On 11/16/2014 08:24 PM, Christopher wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 6:46 AM, Mustafa Muhammad >> <mustafaa.alhamda...@gmail.com <mailto:mustafaa.alhamda...@gmail.com>> >> wrote:
>> This doesn't seem relevant to this discussion, unless Fedora browsers >> are automatically, and without the user's explicit knowledge or >> permission, navigating to Google's search engine, which (AFAICT) they >> are not. > > Same happens with these tiles. No data is sent back to Mozilla unless > you *choose* to click one of the promoted tiles. Even if not sent to Mozilla, it's accessible to the advertisers. I could spend a long time explaining the various means, that web advertisers track their users, ranging from crafting URL's and metadata about the particular requests to 'web bugs', those little one pixel transparent gifs so ubiquitous on the plethora of ad.doublelick.net websites with fake names used to collect the data. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
