Hey, so this is super cool.

Google has been collecting call and messaging data about who you talk to or send text messages to for years. There's no opt-out, no notifcation in their TOS they're doing this, and you can't see the results of that collection in Google Takeout.

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Between you and me, this is one of the most frustrating things about working at Mozilla. We spend _years_ busting our asses on privacy, agonizing over minimalist, rigorously anonymized telemetry, making sure it's all transparent and safe and has opt-outs, and the internet screams at us for it anyway. And every other tech company out there responds to the years of research it takes to prove they don't give a shit about any of this with "whoops yeah sorry my bad we'll definitely do something".

@mhoye @aral mozillanın google'dan yılda 500 milyon dolar aldığını söylüyor. Bu ne için?

@aral says mozilla gets $500 million a year from google. What is this for?

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I don't know authoritatively, but I suspect it helps Google say they aren't a monopoly if there are other web browsers around. For Mozilla, I imagine this helps keep the lights on. It's not a quid pro quo in my mind.
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