vissha Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Mozilla Announces Context Graph as "a Better Forward Button" Context Grah will be a recommendation engine for Firefox Quote Nick Nguyen, VP Firefox Product at the Mozilla Foundation, has announced today on his Medium blog a new Mozilla-sanctioned project called Context Graph, which he describes as "a better forward button." In a simplified explanation, Context Graph will be a new technology embedded with Firefox that will help users discover new content based on the page they're already on, their past history, but also the previous navigational patterns of other users. This means that Mozilla will collect data from its users and build a database of how sites link to each other and how users are following these paths, trying to detect the most popular routes. Mozilla will build a link recommendation engine This data will then be used to suggest new pages the user could follow, in a so-called "recommendation system" seen with various online services, but usually limited in scope, such as news articles (Facebook, Google, Twitter, Pocket, Flipboard etc.). A raw version of Context Graph is already available with Firefox's Activity Stream feature, currently under public testing via the Test Pilot add-on. Fitting with Mozilla's image of an open-source friendly company, the Context Graph engine will be open-sourced and available for peer review. User privacy will be a big deal User privacy is expected to be a big issue, and so the Foundation has already started tests with a small number of volunteers on the best methods of collecting data without sacrificing user privacy and control over the browser. "Just like when we launched Firefox 1.0 in 2004, there is no guarantee that we’ll be successful," Nguyen writes. "Tackling the Context Graph is the perfect challenge for Firefox because it is one that nobody else will. We’ll do this in the only way we know how - by being open and getting help and advice from anyone who wants to contribute." Source Alternate Source - InfoWorld Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jabrwky Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 This seems invasive, just what we are trying to avoid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Karlston Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 3 hours ago, CODYQX4 said: Yay! Even more "we know what's best for you" crap! +1. Like the Facebook Random Post List Newsfeed that shows you only posts that you'll be interested in. Case in point... I followed the Daily Dilbert page, one post per day, just a single one, and Facebook's magnificent Newsfeed AI algorithm decided I don't need to see it. 3 hours ago, CODYQX4 said: I hope you can get the standard button back Yep, looks like another Firefox "feature" that users will be asking how to disable or opt-out from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luisam Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Looks the world is full of organizations which know what's best for you! Any moral difference between this "friendly" approach to follow users and Google, Microsoft, NSA, your friendly Chinese Government or Kim Yung Un? A whole Big Brotherhood is watching us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted July 9, 2016 Administrator Share Posted July 9, 2016 It's good to see Firefox doing something different than following Chrome, but they need to try better here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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