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stlee42 | 3 years ago

previous discussion here: 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

1: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations/blob/main/ex...

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GekkePrutser|3 years ago

Weird. Why give your biggest competitor insight in your usage numbers??

s3p|3 years ago

I 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.

andrewxdiamond|3 years ago

It is illegal for GCP to give that information to Chrome. pretty blatant antitrust violation

andrenatalbr|3 years ago

No usage data is sent to Google. Only the models are stored on GCS under Mozilla's account and tracking is not even an option.

autoexec|3 years ago

I guess this won't work for me then. I'm not going to unblock googleapis.com for it.