{"id":35365,"date":"2022-03-23T17:11:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T21:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35365"},"modified":"2022-03-23T17:11:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T21:11:09","slug":"firefox-unique-download-identifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/23\/firefox-unique-download-identifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Unique Download Identifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghacks.net\/2022\/03\/17\/each-firefox-download-has-a-unique-identifier\/\">Martin Brinkmann<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=30715163\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.ghacks.net\/2022\/03\/17\/each-firefox-download-has-a-unique-identifier\/\"><p>Internet users who download the Firefox web browser from the official Mozilla website get a unique identifier attached to the installer that is submitted to Mozilla on install and first run.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><blockquote><p>This data will allow us to correlate telemetry IDs with download tokens and Google Analytics IDs. This will allow us to track which installs result from which downloads to determine the answers to questions like, &ldquo;Why do we see so many installs per day, but not that many downloads per day?&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Mozilla notes that the opt-out mechanism is the standard Telemetry opt-out. How users may opt-out before the installation of Firefox is unclear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t think this applies to the Mac version. It would be hard to combine with notarization.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/14\/still-no-preference-to-opt-out-of-ocsp\/\">Still No Preference to Opt Out of OCSP<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Brinkmann (via Hacker News): Internet users who download the Firefox web browser from the official Mozilla website get a unique identifier attached to the installer that is submitted to Mozilla on install and first run.[&#8230;]This data will allow us to correlate telemetry IDs with download tokens and Google Analytics IDs. This will allow us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-03-23T21:11:11Z","apple_news_api_id":"bc7f4b67-f797-4aa4-a395-ea37da2e80be","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-03-23T21:11:12Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AvH9LZ_eXSqSjleo32i6Avg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[279,518,30,32,2077,1842,355],"class_list":["post-35365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-firefox","tag-googleanalytics","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-12","tag-notarization","tag-privacy"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35366,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35365\/revisions\/35366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}