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Comment by lukan

9 months ago

"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.