If every distro uses a different key, then Google can distinguish which distro users are using. Wouldn't that qualify as a privacy breach? IIRC, we explicitely don't send the google cookie for safebrowsing. If we don't do that for geoloc, that would seem like a bug. OTOH, they can probably correlate with the google cookie the user is already using in the same browser... So while using a different key means more information available to google, is it actually making things worse than they already are?
That being said, doesn't shipping those keys in the source packages in distros breach their TOS?
If every distro uses a different key, then Google can distinguish which distro users are using. Wouldn't that qualify as a privacy breach? IIRC, we explicitely don't send the google cookie for safebrowsing. If we don't do that for geoloc, that would seem like a bug. OTOH, they can probably correlate with the google cookie the user is already using in the same browser... So while using a different key means more information available to google, is it actually making things worse than they already are?
That being said, doesn't shipping those keys in the source packages in distros breach their TOS?