"No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers" proclaims the Firefox homepage, but that's no longer true in Firefox 128.
Less than a month after acquiring the AdTech company Anonym, Mozilla has added special software co-authored by Meta and built for the advertising industry directly to the latest release
Why is telemetry useful or why is it needed to use pi-hole to block telemetry?
Telemetry is useful to know what features your customers use. While it’s great in theory to have product managers who dogfood and can act on everyone’s behalf, the reality is telemetry ensures your favorite feature keeps being maintained. It helps ensure the bugs you see get triaged and root caused.
Unfortunately telemetry has grown to mean too many things for different people. Telemetry can refer to feature usage, bug tracking, advertising, behavior tracking.
Is there evidence that even when you disable telemetry in Firefox it still reports telemetry? That seems like a strong claim for Firefox.
It is way easier to start with a clean slate and to avoid Mozilla randomly turning on antifeatures. Stock Firefox as so much wrong with it. I don’t need to care on Librewolf as all of those have been stripped out and it is a clean experience
And, we’re back to normal?
Yes but Firefox still has telemetry.
Uncheck that box too
You can’t turn it off completely and even if you did it would still send the data before you unchecked it. Better to use something else like Librewolf
Pi-Hole seems to do a great job blocking telemetry.Mozilla.com at home
Why is it necessary
Why is telemetry useful or why is it needed to use pi-hole to block telemetry?
Telemetry is useful to know what features your customers use. While it’s great in theory to have product managers who dogfood and can act on everyone’s behalf, the reality is telemetry ensures your favorite feature keeps being maintained. It helps ensure the bugs you see get triaged and root caused.
Unfortunately telemetry has grown to mean too many things for different people. Telemetry can refer to feature usage, bug tracking, advertising, behavior tracking.
Is there evidence that even when you disable telemetry in Firefox it still reports telemetry? That seems like a strong claim for Firefox.
It is way easier to start with a clean slate and to avoid Mozilla randomly turning on antifeatures. Stock Firefox as so much wrong with it. I don’t need to care on Librewolf as all of those have been stripped out and it is a clean experience