The "Get Add-ons" view in Firefox is an iframe
privacy policy is linked from the Get Add-ons view
Honestly, you hugely fucked up with this one. You lost a massive amount of trust with me that took years to grow.
If you care about privacy, blind trust is never something you should have.
This has all the trappings of a mistake to me. A group of developers responsible for developing one area (the add-ons page), was not considering the impact it might have on another (the browser developers). Perhaps they should find a different solution, but it rings hollow to argue that a privacy conscious user shouldn't be expected to have read the privacy policy.
The TOR devs are fixing this part in their browser, and their comment was:
> Disallow `about:addons` unless the extensions directory is volatile, because regardless of what Mozilla PR says about respecting privacy, loading Google Analytics in a page that gets loaded as an IFRAME as part of an `about:` internal page, is anything but.
But that's not my point. As I said, they could well be wrong, but it's over the top to argue that it's Mozilla's fault for disclosing this in the privacy policy (which apparently no one reads). If you are so privacy conscious that this bothers you that much, the privacy policy should be required reading.
No, this is something that by law I have to be informed about. And Mozilla has a reputation of working for their users, so I actually trusted them.
I do agree with you after this, the trust was misplaced, Mozilla is not any better than Google, NSA, MfS/Stasi or GeStaPo, just not giving a single fuck about privacy, but I did trust them before this, and so did many others.
In fact, people only used Mozilla products because of this trust.