Mozilla Has Likely Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by Default
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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 included data about advertising within Firefox’s New Tab page, along with a lot of other technical information about the installation of Firefox. The Firefox preferences UI makes no mention of usage of this technical data for advertising purposes. Mozilla has also recently shared that they share data with their advertising partners “on a de-identified or aggregated basis”. Mozilla has given no indication that this is a new occurrence.

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.

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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    7 days ago

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

  • fartsparkles@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 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.

  • DFX4509B@lemmy.orgEnglish
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    7 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.