Die Funktionalität dieser Website ist durch Wartungsarbeiten eingeschränkt, die Ihr Erlebnis verbessern sollen. Wenn ein Artikel Ihr Problem nicht löst und Sie eine Frage stellen möchten, können Sie unsere Gemeinschaft über @FirefoxSupport auf Twitter, /r/firefox oder Reddit fragen.

Hilfe durchsuchen

Vorsicht vor Support-Betrug: Wir fordern Sie niemals auf, eine Telefonnummer anzurufen, eine SMS an eine Telefonnummer zu senden oder persönliche Daten preiszugeben. Bitte melden Sie verdächtige Aktivitäten über die Funktion „Missbrauch melden“.

Weitere Informationen

Forcing the user name to be the email address is a privacy issue!

  • 10 Antworten
  • 1 hat dieses Problem
  • 2 Aufrufe
  • Letzte Antwort von Kiki

more options

I just signed up with my email address and noticed that my user name automatically became the local part of the mail address (localpart@domain). The user name cannot be changed.

That's a huge privacy issue because my account is forcibly named after my real name because of my email address. I do not want that to be public! I don't understand why this decision was made by Mozilla, when the first thing you see on firefox.com is the slogen: "And start getting the respect you deserve with our family of privacy-first products."

I know that I can change the display name, but you can still see my real name in the profile URL and on my profile page itself.

I just signed up with my email address and noticed that my user name automatically became the local part of the mail address (localpart@domain). The user name cannot be changed. That's a huge privacy issue because my account is forcibly named after my real name because of my email address. I do not want that to be public! I don't understand why this decision was made by Mozilla, when the first thing you see on firefox.com is the slogen: "And start getting the respect you deserve with our family of privacy-first products." I know that I can change the display name, but you can still see my real name in the profile URL and on my profile page itself.

Geändert am von xxx

Ausgewählte Lösung

Hi xxx,

My name is Kiki, the community manager in SUMO. I can totally understand your concern. I'll bring this topic to the product team so they can consider to at least add an option for the users to change their username. If you're interested to follow up the progress, you can do so follow this issue on github.

Diese Antwort im Kontext lesen 👍 0

Alle Antworten (10)

more options

Hello xxx,

Don't worry : when you click on your avatar or display name and then on "View Profile", you're the only one who gets to see those private details.

Everybody else sees them when they view their own profile.

But when you view somebody else's profile, you won't see them - try it and go to my profile .....

(it's totally understandable that you thought that everybody could now see your email address etc.)

more options

McCoy said

Hello xxx, Don't worry : when you click on your avatar or display name and then on "View Profile", you're the only one who gets to see those private details. Everybody else sees them when they view their own profile. But when you view somebody else's profile, you won't see them - try it and go to my profile ..... (it's totally understandable that you thought that everybody could now see your email address etc.)

I'm not worried about my mail address, I'm worried about the REAL NAME used in my mail address. And you can totally see that.

In your case:

McCoy (McCoy-thereal) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/user/McCoy-thereal

In my case it's firstname.lastname.

Geändert am von xxx

more options

xxx said

I'm not worried about my mail address, I'm worried about the REAL NAME used in my mail address. And you can totally see that.
In your case:
McCoy (McCoy-thereal)
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/user/ McCoy-thereal
In my case it's firstname.lastname.

I just checked, and it appears that when you created your account, you entered your real name as your username.

When I created my account I entered "McCoy-thereal" as my username, and "McCoy" as my display name.

Only an administrator can change your username, so I will forward this to an administrator and ask them to contact you.

Till then : I don't think that anybody will be interested to find out what "xxx's" real name is, so don't worry ......

more options

Please stop telling me to not worry, that should not be your concern.

I was not able to choose any user name. It was automatically created from the email addres.

https://imgur.com/a/ROsomd5

Perhaps you could show me where to choose a user name upon signup? Because I don't believe you can actually choose one.

more options

I have forwarded this thread in an email to an adminstrator and
asked them to contact you.

Please forgive me for trying to reassure you - I'm only a volunteer contributor, a user just like you, trying to help other users in my spare time

more options

Ausgewählte Lösung

Hi xxx,

My name is Kiki, the community manager in SUMO. I can totally understand your concern. I'll bring this topic to the product team so they can consider to at least add an option for the users to change their username. If you're interested to follow up the progress, you can do so follow this issue on github.

more options

Hi Kiki, thanks for this. When I signed up, I chose the Firefox account and not the SUMO account. Does this issue regard both account types?

more options

I can confirm that I'm not able to modify my username as well (I made my account in 2013). But I don't know if it has something to do because I've merged my old SUMO account with my FxA when we introduce the integration back then in May.

more options

xxx said

When I signed up, I chose the Firefox account and not the SUMO account. Does this issue regard both account types?

@ xxx and Kiki :

I was wondering if maybe something went wrong with number 3 in this article (?) :

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/access-mozilla-services-firefox-account

Cause (as far as I know) only for a Firefox Sync account goes that one's email address is also the username (which cannot be seen by others ).



@ Kiki :

An administrator should be able to change the username - this has always been the case in the past; has this changed ?

more options

Hi xxx,

your username should've been changed by now. Let me know if you need any more help.

Thanks!