Comment by skeaker
9 months ago
Transparent telemetry is not spying. I'll agree that the ads are annoying but they're about as unobtrusive as you can make them. This is not the catastrophe you believe it to be, and even if it were, the big scary evil worse-than-Google Mozilla allows forks and Librewolf exists.
"Transparent telemetry is not spying. "
It is not transparent, if the information is hidden in the settings under a unclear name.
Its usage and the data it collects are not malicious or done to track you. "Data collection" is arguably a clearer name than telemetry to the average user and is clearly labelled, and can be disabled in a single checkbox in settings. It is transparent.
"Its usage and the data it collects are not malicious or done to track you."
There is tracking also for ad purposes activated by default in firefox. A recent developement. Before the tracking was ocasionally and hidden under "studies". Firefox in its default settings spies on its users and sells this data to advertisers - that is the situation.
On the frontpage FF is advertised as privacy friendly and there is 0 indication that FF itself will also track you.
If that is transparent to you, than we can just agree to disagree.