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They phone home with the recommendations which leaks info about your browsing history.

• kibwen 8y ago
  Source? That's contrary to everything I've seen.
  • hnaccy 8y ago
    >When you use Firefox, Mozilla by default collects technical and interaction data. You can read about the data we collect and how you can choose what you share in the Firefox Privacy Notice. >If your Firefox is configured to share this technical and interaction data with Mozilla, when Recommendations from Pocket are displayed on your new tab, we collect information about how many times they appear and whether or not you interact with them. >This reports all the Pocket recommended articles (a list of ids) when the user opens a newtab. https://help.getpocket.com/article/1142-firefox-new-tab-recommendations https://help.getpocket.com/article/1142-firefox-new-tab-reco... https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/blob/master/docs/v2-system-addon/data_events.md https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/blob/master/docs/...
    • busrf 8y ago
      The sentence following your second quote is: >However, this information is not associated with any of the other technical and interaction information about you or your copy of Firefox. Are you concerned about collection of anonymized metrics, or do you have some reason to believe that the data collected is not anonymized?
      • hnaccy 8y ago
        I'm using an open source browser because I don't trust third parties; what if they were served a NSL or similar? Either way the common claim that it's purely local is certainly not true.