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Disclosure: I don't have any relation to Mozilla (so some of this could be wrong), and about half of it I discovered after reading this comment. I do run Firef
by Jap2-0 5y ago
Disclosure: I don't have any relation to Mozilla (so some of this could be wrong), and about half of it I discovered after reading this comment. I do run Firefox Nightly, and follow Firefox development somewhat.
I don't see the same screen you do (perhaps something to do with telemetry being force-enabled in nightly?) so this is based off of what you wrote:
> Is this a study...
Studies are generally minor tweaks in user configuration sent to a subset of users (often nightly), and then telemetry between control and experiment groups is compared. You can see what studies you have been in at about:studies. For example, some of mine include setting the user-agent to Firefox 100 (to test a 3-digit number), enabling fission (and a number of things with process counts and whatnot), enabling HTTP/3, and (I kid not) "Changing a pref that does nothing - to check enrollment and unenrollment reliability." A lot of the time if you inspect element the source has a bug number you can look at (which really ought to be a built-in feature).
> The result of crash logging
You can see this in about:crashes; this is when the browser or a process (eg. GPU) crashes.
> Data about your interactions with Firefox
Probably, this seems like the most broad and undefined one
> Number and type of installed addons
Seems self-explanatory
> Firefox features offered by Mozilla or our partners
Not really sure about this one, presumably it relates more to things that have to do with third-parties or them making money
> Overview of tracking
See about:telemetry. That has links to a number of other pages I didn't realize existed before today, but which seem to have a pretty comprehensive public overview.
- jeroenhd 5y agoThe quote is from Mozilla's own page explaining telemetry, not from the settings screen. The settings are much shorter. about:telemetry didn't work on my phone (although the screenshots and videos I could find on it seem to indicate that it's just names and raw values, not human-readable descriptions), but it did contain a link to https://probes.telemetry.mozilla.org/ https://probes.telemetry.mozilla.org/ and the newer https://dictionary.telemetry.mozilla.org/ https://dictionary.telemetry.mozilla.org/ that seem to contain an overview of telemetry data collected. I don't see anything on there about PDFs and Javascript, so I'm guessing there's another telemetry endpoint out there that I'm not seeing. Maybe the PDF renderer has a separate telemetry system, I don't know. Seeing the amount of (IMO useless) data Mozilla collects, I'll be opting out from telemetry from now on anyway.