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Mozilla Labs Wants To Monitor (Volunteers') Firefox Use

Howardd21 writes "PC World reports that Mozilla Labs wants 1% of its Firefox users to voluntarily provide information about how they use the browser, and their web browsing habits. This would be done through an add-on named "Test Pilot" that collects the information and associates it with some demographic information that the user has provided. Unlike other data collection utilities that software developers may include to provide usage information, the add-on will follow the same open source concept that Firefox adheres to, allowing the market to better understand what is being collected. Mozilla Labs stresses privacy when discussing how they will collect, store and use the data, including publishing it for other researchers to to analyze."

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  1. Won't happen by jerep · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not giving them my best porn sites.

  2. Mandatory by Bocconcini · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, open source monitors you!