Reviews for Firefox Translations
Firefox Translations by Mozilla Firefox
Review by Juan G.P.
Rated 5 out of 5
by Juan G.P., 2 years agoThere are people who expect translations like Google's.
Google is a multi-billion dollar company that has the resources to create highly refined products in a short time. That's not to say that doing a translator takes little time, let alone that it's easy.
However I quote a question from a user who gave a star, why does that happen?
"Questions : Why does 'Firefox Translations' connect to [o1069899.ingest.sentry.io] AND TO [incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org] AND TO [storage.googleapis.com], to the latter in particular? What privacy when a Google server is aware that user lambda is calling it?"
Google is a multi-billion dollar company that has the resources to create highly refined products in a short time. That's not to say that doing a translator takes little time, let alone that it's easy.
However I quote a question from a user who gave a star, why does that happen?
"Questions : Why does 'Firefox Translations' connect to [o1069899.ingest.sentry.io] AND TO [incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org] AND TO [storage.googleapis.com], to the latter in particular? What privacy when a Google server is aware that user lambda is calling it?"
Developer response
posted 2 years agoHello Juan. The first server is used to report errors in the application and the second for telemetry. You can disable both on about:addons -> Firefox Translations -> Preferences and switching off the first two options. The last server is where our models are stored, and despite of its domain name which is due to GCP, it's a Mozilla property and Google does not have access to it.