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please counter with facts I already did. Much of the stuff you mentioned has always been enabled and had nothing to do with telemetry. This is most obvious wit

by gcp 9y ago

please counter with facts I already did. Much of the stuff you mentioned has always been enabled and had nothing to do with telemetry. This is most obvious with the update checks. And yes, you DO need to send information to know which add-ons to update. Probing every installed add-on to see if there's an update amounts to sending over the list of installed add-ons. Let's be forthright about that. I quoted an article from one of the Telemetry engineers explaining that now LESS data is collected by default. I think that's a good enough rebuttal to your claim that there has been a change of direction to collect more.

jamiesonbecker 9y ago
Personally, I actually don't have any issue with any of the individual telemetry data, although it can certainly be used to fingerprint and for other nefarious purposes, or even if it's opt-out instead of opt-in, but collecting it by default is definitely a new change. In fact, your link explicitly explains that you cannot control the extent of data collection now. ("There is just one control for data upload for Firefox") It also explains that this is a new change ("which is on by default.") Trying to spin this or casting aspersions on casual users who noticed a change won't change the facts.