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You would think they could have linked to that in their blog post, since people who have disabled "studies" have probably done so for a reason. Telemetry is ba
by username223 7y ago
You would think they could have linked to that in their blog post, since people who have disabled "studies" have probably done so for a reason. Telemetry is bad enough; even without the "Mr. Robot" thing, there's no way I would let Mozilla randomly push changes to my browser just to see what happens.
- andrewshadura 7y agoWhat’s bad about telemetry?
- username223 7y agoIt's just another database collecting unknown information about me ("anonymized" in some way that may be reversible), stored for an unknown length of time, and enabled by default. Just ask. Plenty of people will beta test software for a $20 gift certificate, or even for free, but they should be given a choice.
- icebraining 7y agoMozilla does ask.
- zerocrates 7y agoDo they? I seem to remember a great kerfuffle somewhat recently over telemetry being opt-out. Studies _must_ be opt-out given the amount of users Mozilla says the fix covers, and they're basically a form of telemetry, in their intended use anyway.