addons-frontend vs google-analytics-proxy

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Front-end to complement mozilla/addons-server (by mozilla)

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Google Analytics Proxy (by NYPL)

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addons-frontend		google-analytics-proxy
	Project
11	Mentions	1
531	Stars	63
0.2%	Growth	-
9.8	Activity	0.0
9 days ago	Latest Commit	almost 7 years ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
Mozilla Public License 2.0	License	-

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addons-frontend

Posts with mentions or reviews of addons-frontend. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-02.

take your daily medicine guys
4 projects | /r/linuxmemes | 2 Mar 2023

They've admitted to it in their github. It even happens when you've changed the default search engine, and set the new tab to about:blank.
Chrome users
2 projects | /r/linuxmemes | 9 Dec 2022
Why do people keep acting like firefox is a privacy respecting browser?
6 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 28 Jul 2022

It may be true that browsing about:addons (as described in the cited source) pings Google analytics (untested by me), but the source bug report also links to this description of legal contracts between Mozilla and Google that clearly show that Google is prevented from mining or sharing this data. Google may stil have access to the data (couldn't find a reference), but I'm sure UBO has a thing or two to say about that.
Based browsers
3 projects | /r/linuxmemes | 27 Jul 2022

Firefox has google analytics built in to spy on users.
No more updates to Firefox's Blocked Add-ons list?
1 project | /r/firefox | 16 Oct 2021

As for "why", the current blocklist is able to scale a lot more than the previous versions. Combined with the fact that this page wasn't super useful per se, we decided to not recreate such a page. See also: https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/9216
addons.mozilla.org triggers XPI download
1 project | /r/firefox | 21 Sep 2021

This looks like a bug. I filed an issue for that and submitted a patch.
58% of Hacker News, Reddit and tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Aug 2021

If you're referring to Firefox using Google Analytics for the Firefox Add-ons frontend, as of July 2017, Firefox has disabled Google Analytics for any browser that has Do Not Track enabled.
https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785#issue...
This change was made in response to pressure from HN readers, so thanks to everyone for that.
Problems I Have with GNU Philosophy
1 project | /r/linux | 3 Aug 2021

How does something being open source inherently make it more ethical? Is an OSS that spys on all of your information more ethical than a proprietary software that doesn't? It's not like it's an impossibility for OSS to be malicious!
You know what, Fuck you
3 projects | /r/linuxmemes | 13 Mar 2021

Because Firefox is also horrible, THEY USE GOOGLE ANALYTICS
Mozilla should add this feature from the Chrome Web Store!
1 project | /r/firefox | 12 Feb 2021

I made an issue for this on GitHub. Give it a thumbs up if you're interested! https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/10087

google-analytics-proxy

Posts with mentions or reviews of google-analytics-proxy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-31.

58% of Hacker News, Reddit and tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Aug 2021

Worth noting that if you're already willing to setup a first-party proxy like Plausible does in this comparison, you can do the same thing with Google Analytics with either the NYPL project [1] or send your own data to the Google Measurement Protocol API [2].
[1] https://github.com/NYPL/google-analytics-proxy
[2] https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing addons-frontend and google-analytics-proxy you can also consider the following projects:

Nebulo - Mirror of https://git.frostnerd.com/PublicAndroidApps/smokescreen. Feel free to contribute here as well.

tracker-control-android - TrackerControl Android: monitor and control trackers and ads.

iceraven-browser - Iceraven Browser

privacytests.org - Source code for privacytests.org. Includes browser testing code and site rendering.

Pi-hole - A black hole for Internet advertisements

GoatCounter - Easy web analytics. No tracking of personal data.

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Firefox-52-ESR-legacy-addon - [WIP] A curated list and XPI files of Mozilla Firefox browser extensions, addons, themes from addons.mozilla.org, before XUL-based purge blackout

activity-stream - A refreshed "new tab page" for Firefox