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Mozilla Has Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by Default (www.quippd.com)

submitted 1 week ago by yoasif@fedia.io to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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TL;DR: With Firefox 56, Mozilla combined Firefox Health Report and Telemetry data into a single setting called “technical and interaction data”, which was then enabled by default. This data was then shared with advertising partners on a de-identified or aggregated basis.

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[–] AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well shit. I left telemetry on because I liked Firefox and didn't mind helping the developers with their free software. I very much mind helping marketers. I'm really curious what exactly is being shared.
But I've already moved on to Waterfox and Librewolf on everything but my phone.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

Put Waterfox on your phone! It's been great for me.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

Same. If you don’t enable telemetry, how are they supposed to know if a feature is popular?

Meanwhile, they’re selling the data to fucking ad networks. Scum.