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I often do not have a problem with the information telemetry collects: I take issue with the entitlement to it a new breed of awful app developers have. They th
by ocdtrekkie 5y ago
I often do not have a problem with the information telemetry collects: I take issue with the entitlement to it a new breed of awful app developers have. They think they have the right to use my device for information collection without my permission.
If Firefox occasionally showed me a report on some metrics it collected and asked me if I was okay sending it to Mozilla, I'd probably be fine with it. However, the choice to take it without my consent will always be opposed.
- InitialLastName 5y agoDo they do that? It's been a long time since I installed Firefox, but as far as I can tell there are very visible settings for controlling the telemetry that they collect.
- ocdtrekkie 5y agoThere are settings, however, they are enabled by default to silently send telemetry, and they also implement new ways of collecting telemetry, with new settings to opt out of it, on an "every few months" basis. So it's a constant battle of monitoring what behavior they're up to and turning it off.