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Hmm, well, does your App Tracking Protection say anything about what it’s blocking here or how it decided that this traffic is for tracking?
Personally, I have a lot of trust that Mozilla isn’t doing shenanigans, because they don’t have a profit motive and I have yet to see a case of Mozilla supposedly being evil, which doesn’t turn out to just look like that superficially.
Well, and I don’t have a lot of trust in such tracking blockers to only block tracking of personal data. They can’t actually look at the data being sent, so they massively err on the side of just blocking any telemetry, even if it is completely anonymized / purely technical.
That’s not what I wanted to say with that. I will put them under a lot of scrutiny. I tried to explain, why I am willing to put them under a lot of scrutiny rather than just assuming evil corporations be evil.
Yeah, it’s pretty understandable to associate telemetry with wrongdoing. There’s been so much of it that it’s easier to switch it off.
There’s a lot of useful, non-personal data they have legitimate reason to collect. Namely, app profiling data for profile-guided optimization which can improve the performance of the browser by analyzing how it runs on actual devices.
Hmm, well, does your App Tracking Protection say anything about what it’s blocking here or how it decided that this traffic is for tracking?
Personally, I have a lot of trust that Mozilla isn’t doing shenanigans, because they don’t have a profit motive and I have yet to see a case of Mozilla supposedly being evil, which doesn’t turn out to just look like that superficially.
Well, and I don’t have a lot of trust in such tracking blockers to only block tracking of personal data. They can’t actually look at the data being sent, so they massively err on the side of just blocking any telemetry, even if it is completely anonymized / purely technical.
Well that’s very trusting of you.
That’s not what I wanted to say with that. I will put them under a lot of scrutiny. I tried to explain, why I am willing to put them under a lot of scrutiny rather than just assuming evil corporations be evil.
Yeah, it’s pretty understandable to associate telemetry with wrongdoing. There’s been so much of it that it’s easier to switch it off.
There’s a lot of useful, non-personal data they have legitimate reason to collect. Namely, app profiling data for profile-guided optimization which can improve the performance of the browser by analyzing how it runs on actual devices.