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People unfortunately equivocate the idea of telemetry, and will compare the idea of a web browser sending version information with a web browser collecting actu
by everdrive 7y ago
People unfortunately equivocate the idea of telemetry, and will compare the idea of a web browser sending version information with a web browser collecting actual web traffic. Both may be bad, but they're certainly different kinds of bad.
Do we have a thorough and detailed list of what information is possible in the default Firefox telemetry?
- rndgermandude 7y agoThis should be the list of all telemetry currently collected: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20244271 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20244271 has a better description and links.
- kbrosnan 7y agoThe list is at https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/file/tip/toolkit/components/telemetry/Histograms.json https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/file/tip/too... looking at the blame view will usually lead to the bug that introduced the probe. Short of the file being refactored, which case you need to look at the file before the refactoring happened. That will describe the reason and the data review that occurred before adding the probe. There is also the probe dictionary at https://telemetry.mozilla.org/probe-dictionary/?optout=true&channel=release https://telemetry.mozilla.org/probe-dictionary/?optout=true&... which is a bit easier to read.
- Yoric 7y agoYes, we do: https://data.firefox.com/ https://data.firefox.com/ .
- cpeterso 7y agoYou can see what telemetry data your Firefox has recorded in the about:telemetry page.