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.

  • DFX4509B@lemmy.org
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    6 days 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.

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    6 days ago

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

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    6 days 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.