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=Privacy Policy Problems= | =Privacy Policy Problems= | ||
The privacy policy contains a couple of factual errors around what the settings control. | |||
==Get Add-ons Page== | |||
''Firefox sends certain information to Mozilla, including the list of add-ons you have installed, Firefox version information, and your IP address. This communication only happens when the Get Add-ons area is open and can be turned off at any time by opting out of Automatic Updates from the Add-ons Manager'' | |||
This implies to me that turning Off Automatic Updates, setting (2), will not transmit the listed information. In fact this has no effect at all. Were we to implement something like {{bug|635115}} then it would only prevent the list from being sent, the other information would still be included. Setting (1) does control this but we likely don't want to steer users to this. | |||
==Add-on Information== | |||
''This communication includes the list of add-ons you have installed, Firefox version information, how long it took Firefox to start up, and your IP address. You can turn off this functionality at any time by opting out of Automatic Updates from the Add-ons Manager.'' | |||
This implies to me that turning Off Automatic Updates, setting (2), will not transmit the listed information. This is currently correct because we included setting (3) in the background metadata check controls however as noted above I'm not sure that was the right thing to do. Again setting (1) does control this. | |||
=Potential Improvements= | =Potential Improvements= | ||