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You can disable the ads in the preferences. The telemetry can be mostly disabled there too, more if you use about:config. Pocket, which I assume is the service
by zaarn 8y ago
You can disable the ads in the preferences. The telemetry can be mostly disabled there too, more if you use about:config. Pocket, which I assume is the service you mention, can also be disabled in about:config.
You can find more here: https://www.privacy-handbuch.de/handbuch_21u.htm https://www.privacy-handbuch.de/handbuch_21u.htm
This user.js will disable most of the telemetry and other things: https://www.privacy-handbuch.de/download/minimal/user.js https://www.privacy-handbuch.de/download/minimal/user.js
So yes, you can disable these.
- brynjolf 8y agoBut it isn't by default, that is the issue
- zaarn 8y agoIf telemetry was off by default, Mozilla would be blind to what the users are doing, to common sources of crashes and to what features are not being used. Mozilla needs that information to be able to make a decision on where to focus. Same for ads, default off ads defeats the entire purpose. Mozilla is a privacy-aware and even -focused corporation and I will assume that the defaults of the browser are good for the common end user. Everything else may be configured.
- ekianjo 8y agomozilla needs to ask before collecting data. What is difficult about that?
- zaarn 8y agoThey need to ask if they collect personal data as per GDPR or the US Data Privacy laws. If the data collected is not of private nature they don't need to ask.
- ekianjo 8y agoUsage patterns can be granular enough to identify a user online, its easy enough to do that with machine learning nowadays. They have to ask anyway.
- zaarn 8y agoIt doesn't send that granular enough of a usage pattern though, they have a group of people making sure that they data they collect cannot be used to identify someone.