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Honestly this has never been secret. It's even in the configure flags to enable/disable it. So you van easily disable it as you wish. There's a page on the wik

Honestly this has never been secret. It's even in the configure flags to enable/disable it. So you van easily disable it as you wish. There's a page on the wiki aboit various forms of data collections [1]. It os pretty descriptive of the information they send. [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Data_Collection https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Data_Collection

kuschku 9y ago
The question is, will you be informed about it if you only read the information that is directly linked, or shown to you, when downloading, installing, and running Firefox? No. That’s the big issue. You have to actively search out if Firefox tracks you to find out that this happens. That’s pretty secret.
- bjpbakker 9y ago
  I don't disagree with you that the information can be made more easily available. I was just responding to it not being a secret. As an aside it suprises me that this is so blown up today (while tracking shipped a long time ago). Many complaining users will even comment or share this via their Chrome browser, which is far worse than Firefox (still not saying that Firefox is doing everything right here :) )
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gorhill 9y ago
> There's a page on the wiki aboit various forms of data collections [1]. The page you linked to starts with "Firefox sends various data back to Mozilla". Nowhere does it say "Firefox sends various data back to Google Analytics" on that page.
- gcp 9y ago
  This is probably a better page, as the original one linked is indeed for sending data to Mozilla. This one also talks about "service providers": https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/ Though it also doesn't mention GA.
falcolas 9y ago
They're failing their own requirements though (IMO) by not respecting the "no telemetry" flag, and by not disclosing the use of Google Analytics. Telemetry not associated with GA is generally considered to be different from telemetry collected via GA.

kuschku 9y ago

The question is, will you be informed about it if you only read the information that is directly linked, or shown to you, when downloading, installing, and running Firefox? No. That’s the big issue. You have to actively search out if Firefox tracks you to find out that this happens. That’s pretty secret.

bjpbakker 9y ago
I don't disagree with you that the information can be made more easily available. I was just responding to it not being a secret. As an aside it suprises me that this is so blown up today (while tracking shipped a long time ago). Many complaining users will even comment or share this via their Chrome browser, which is far worse than Firefox (still not saying that Firefox is doing everything right here :) )
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gorhill 9y ago

> There's a page on the wiki aboit various forms of data collections [1]. The page you linked to starts with "Firefox sends various data back to Mozilla". Nowhere does it say "Firefox sends various data back to Google Analytics" on that page.

gcp 9y ago
This is probably a better page, as the original one linked is indeed for sending data to Mozilla. This one also talks about "service providers": https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/ Though it also doesn't mention GA.

falcolas 9y ago

They're failing their own requirements though (IMO) by not respecting the "no telemetry" flag, and by not disclosing the use of Google Analytics. Telemetry not associated with GA is generally considered to be different from telemetry collected via GA.