Well many things occur they could do/try. O course that's easy for me to say. But have zero doubt this isn't good for firefox. More often than not people are probably just going to offload it like yesterdays garbage for another browser. Then FF loses a user and Mint loses any revenue they were getting anyway. ala: lose/lose situation there for sure.
Jmo ... but telenux. If something that trivial and ridiculous is enough to shy you away from a kickbutt piece of software like linux mint and the stuff these developers have made. Then ... don't let the door hitcha.
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Although have no doubt your pinky finger knows more about linux, linux mint than I do. Just wanted to clear something up cause this is one of my pet peeves. All this I'm protecting my privacy blahblahblah rhetoric.Not because i am so concerned about their data tracking, but I object to their data analysis and geotragging.
Unless you have your own internet backbone ( and even then.) Every webpage, web-file and pixel you upload and download to the internet is more than likely made record of somewhere. Hate to break it folks. But if you like midget porn0. Then your ISP and gawd knows how many others know ya do too.
Google owns major datacenters from here to timbuktu along with a handful of tier 1 providers who can get data from any murky corner of the web at will. If they want to know who you are, where you are, whatcha doing ... Your favorite band. They already do ( for that matter they'd just need to visit your facebook, lol.) ... Ya just funnin yaself if you think anything you're doing online is private.
Well ... without some extreme measures being taken. Just sayin.