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previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31596888 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31596888 as noted in [0], the models are hosted on
by stlee42 4y ago
previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31596888 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31596888
as noted in [0], the models are hosted on storage.googleapis.com and downloaded on demand. this still seems to be the case [1]
0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31604095 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31604095
1: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations/blob/main/extension/model/modelRegistry.js#L5 https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations/blob/main/ex...
- GekkePrutser 4y agoWeird. Why give your biggest competitor insight in your usage numbers??
- andrewxdiamond 4y agoIt is illegal for GCP to give that information to Chrome. pretty blatant antitrust violation
- s3p 4y agoI feel like it won't matter. FF translation usage statistics will be a small fraction of Google's, and I can't imagine them even being interested at that kind of data. Since it's an add on (vs. Chrome auto translation by default), it probably won't be adopted by much of the browser userbase.
- andrenatalbr 4y agoNo usage data is sent to Google. Only the models are stored on GCS under Mozilla's account and tracking is not even an option.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoThey can still tell the number of downloads, thus the number of users using this when a new language model update is released.
- autoexec 4y agoI guess this won't work for me then. I'm not going to unblock googleapis.com for it.