Whoever wrote this piece is way too close to... whatever it is Mozilla is doing here. There seems to be an assumption that users will be gleeful to throw their data at legitimate researchers from legitimate institutions doing legitimate work. What "data"? Browsing history? Identity? Something else? Why? What's in it for them? Since when was giving our data to third parties a good idea? There is literally no motivation presented here.
As a nerd I can read between the lines—clearly they have come up with some sort of privacy-preserving data collection system that is useful. But at face value this whole article is just saying "hey use Firefox and give your data to scientists for reasons we don't bother to explain because obviously it's good."
As a nerd I can read between the lines—clearly they have come up with some sort of privacy-preserving data collection system that is useful. But at face value this whole article is just saying "hey use Firefox and give your data to scientists for reasons we don't bother to explain because obviously it's good."