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Mozilla Has Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by Default (www.quippd.com)
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TL;DR: With Firefox 56, Mozilla combined Firefox Health Report and Telemetry data into a single setting called “technical and interaction data”, which was then enabled by default. This data was then shared with advertising partners on a de-identified or aggregated basis.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You can turn off telemetry, but that doesn't save Mozilla from ire for pulling this, it's still a shitty move regardless, it's an answer to the problem, but it doesn't justify the problem's existence or exempt Mozilla from ridicule for it, it's still a problem and it's still a crappy move for someone to pull.