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One of the justifications from the article: > feed previews and live bookmarks are both used in around 0.01% of sessions. I'm curious the source of this data,

• mjw1007 8y ago
  It's a silly justification anyway, as far as "feed previews" go: you preview a feed when you're thinking of subscribing to it, which isn't expected to be an everyday sort of action. I hope they wouldn't consider removing the option to select which application to use to open a particular file type, or to install an add-on, based on the percentage of sessions which use it.
• ams6110 8y ago
  Presumably it is from the users who didn't turn off usage data reporting.
• yorwba 8y ago
  Telemetry: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/#health-report https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/#health-report Edit: I just found out that you can look at the collected data at about:telemetry
  • jasonjayr 8y ago
    Can the telemetry data be rigged? Are there anti-rigging measures in place?
    • dralley 8y ago
      Lol, you think there's a click farm out there installing Firefox on thousands of VMs for the express purpose of throwing off Mozilla Telemetry?
• drivingmenuts 8y ago
  I'm guessing that their numbers come from people who don't switch off their telemetry. So even if you use RSS, if you don't let them know it, you won't be counted. They're not mind-readers.
• qbaqbaqba 8y ago
  Maybe because people use Firefox to avoid being spied on by google?