I have all kinds of anti tracking installed in Firefox but I'm going to sign up for this.<p>Why? Because I want Firefox to be the best browser. Mozilla is not Google and not Microsoft. They have a very different view on privacy and how they would like the internet to evolve.
Isn't Shield the same system that pushed a marketing gimmick late last year? I'm still feeling sore about that fiasco. Not sore enough to stop using Firefox and switch to a worse-for-privacy alternative, but sore enough to be grumpy about signing up for their studies.
> The data you submit is encrypted in Firefox and not decrypted until it is on a server that is not connected to the wider internet.<p>Okay, stupid question: How does it get there? Sneakernet?
Companies like this data to improve their products. As long as it's opt-in, we should have no ethical issue with it. Doesn't surprise me that Mozilla is dealing with this ethically. One of the few organizations I trust.
> The data you submit is encrypted in Firefox and not decrypted until it is on a server that is not connected to the wider internet.<p>This is a good approach.
> Once you’ve opted in, you may be enrolled in additional studies without potentially annoying prompts.<p>Ha. "Once you've opted in, you will not have explicit control over enrollment in future studies" is a less sunny way of saying this.
I see that this personal information, too, doesn't pay like what pioneers used to get paid ... in land, gold, animals.<p>"if you meet the criteria."<p>No. I don't.