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It looks like Mozilla outsourced their tracking to a third party, Blue State Digital[1].

  $ host sendto.mozilla.org
  sendto.mozilla.org is an alias for secure-mozilla-1.bsdtools.com.
  secure-mozilla-1.bsdtools.com has address 66.151.230.193

[1] http://www.bluestatedigital.com/

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It seems so.

On the other hand I outsourced my blog tracking to Google Analytics. I am guilty of the same crime.

Do you do that too?

I have now removed Google Analytics code in my blog until I will find an alternative that keeps my visitors data more private: https://github.com/emilis/emilis.github.com/commit/ad40981a4...

Have you seen Piwik Analytics[1]? It's an open source web analytics app (much like Google's) that you can run on your own server.

[1] http://piwik.org/

Or why do you even need to track? I have disabled tracking in my web server and I am not really feeling missing out on the user statistics on my puny blog.

There's also the possibility of saving the data for a shorter time period if you really need it, like to detect attacks and such.

Tracking actions not related to specific individuals is still extremely valuable information.

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