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Mozilla Has Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by Default (www.quippd.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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] 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

…in regards to the adverts on the New Tab page. Go turn off all that junk for the suggested content on a new tab.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

How does Librewolf improve on this?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It specifically removes all of Mozilla's telemetry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Good.

Tor Browser and Mullvad browser also do this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

So does Icecat and it even cuts out sync as well, where LibreWolf leaves it in and disables it by default, leaving it up to the user to enable at their leisure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I really, really want to use Librewolf. I'm on WaterFox until they have a binary build available that doesn't fail MacOS security checks on launch.

[–] [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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've been saying this for years. And getting shit on for it. It was in the Privacy Policy the whole time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Wish I had seen your comments previously!